Techdirt: Federal Consumer Protection Is Dead. The Fate Of Net Neutrality Warned You It Was Coming.

[ancianita]

8. I hear you. It's worth your valuable time. (I studied, read, and loved

Chomsky for decades. Still do. But now realize that his being prescient hasn't given him the final word.)

First, because it's not about politics. It's about the capitalist virus that infected Silicon Valley OG startups like Google.
Second, it's about the technological "drift" we're in when surveillance capitalist owners assume we'll succumb to the naturalistic fallacy that because Google is successful -- because surveillance capitalism is successful -- its rules must obviously be right and good.

To know what secures or endangers humans' freedoms used to be the mission of the Fourth Estate. Since we now know that corporate media (nominally human) never intended any such thing, it's really up to us humans to not be afraid, not feel helpless & hopeless, and not run in the face of the corporate/capitalist world that's grown around us for over 200 years.
Finally, I won't try to persuade you to read the book. Yet I'll add one last point.
It explains the profit/power/commodification part of Big Tech world that (intentionally or not) is encouraging us humans to let them take over our governments, and not think or worry about our (great/grand) children's futures.

It explains the breadth of the moral moments (ty Cory Booker) we've already been in, whether they've been private or public contexts, or whether they've been political or techno contexts.