"Tech industry tries to make up for regressive politics"
Hate to say it, but there may not be a technical solution to the failings of the USA.
Hate to say it, but there may not be a technical solution to the failings of the USA.
Literally in the article:
“Be smart: Congress won't save us, or these companies, from this battle.
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But long efforts by legislators to pass a national privacy law — an effort many companies support — remain stalemated this summer, as they have been for years.”
No, your fucking government is unable or unwilling to act in the interests of its people. What is a government that is unaccountable to its citizens (whether due to gridlock or malice) called?
National privacy laws would apply to all companies, present and future and to all cases of overreach. Instead, we are all supposed to fight the current big tech cos and fiddle with Google settings to delete location data and buy pinephones and gmail alternatives and drop facebook and use Signal and don’t buy a smart TV and don’t use Github and on and on? Maybe we need to invest more energy into fixing a dead government instead of tech.
Regardless, your implications surrounding my comment, and my intent by making it, are incorrect. Both movements have been disastrous for the United States.
The two philosophies are similar only in name. It is possible to be both a neoliberal and a neoconservative.
For example, every Republican president from the 1980s up to Trump was a neoliberal. This includes Bush who you mention as a counterexample. Trump was the first anti-neoliberal president we have had in decades as he, unlike his predecessors, promoted tariffs.
Civil society takes work and we aren't doing that work in the US right now. No one wants to discuss things, they just want to yell down the other person. We need to get out on the front porch and talk instead of posting from our basements.