Correct, but so long as people keep favoring decorum over decency, it doesn’t matter.

No you disingenuous dick, the pearl clutching is because the supposed “bombed city” you referred to us by your own admission literally just chatter.

You’re being a fear-mongering charlatan.

Legitimately the stupidest comment I’ve read all week.

You understand you’re saying that the doomsday scenario here isn’t any actual doomsday, but people talking about a possible doomsday? Come on, fuck right off.

Truly this might be the single most pearl-clutcher comment on Lemmy.

You should absolutely teach science classes

That’s exactly what the US government did under Teddy Roosevelt when it forced by law these large entities to divest and break up into smaller ones not subsidiarized to each other. And yes, they should also do this to Amazon and Microsoft.

edit: I guess I should say I understand they can’t force them to break up in this instance, but they can simply state they won’t do business with the entities at present and recommend it. If that doesn’t happen, I am confident other savvy investors will be happy to fill any hole left by these giants. The world will keep turning, I promise.

My friend, you yourself have been implying this whole time that Google’s infrastructure is too vital and important to remove - how do you not see that this means they are too powerful? Remember trust-busting? Remember anti-monopoly activism? Nobody thought that by breaking up the railroads people wouldn’t need trains anymore, but they understood the danger of allowing a single company to have such market dominance and what it that would mean for consumers. Same thing here. And yes, I’m aware this requires continual diligence as the phone companies that were once PacBell are now bigger than it was, but that lacking of failure to continue enforcing anti-trust doesn’t mean the concept is wrong.

No single company should be allowed to have such influence that very idea of them going away leads to the very doomsday considerations we’ve been talking about. That’s what this is all about.

Step one in saving us from the oncoming corporate technocracy?

None that insane hyperbole doomsday scenario would happen. None of it.

Show me the bombed town. What a strange comment, as if we all didn’t clearly see what happened: one executive died.

I think people and societies are vastly more resilient that you’re implying, and would survive an admittedly complex 6 month period to switch necessary services. Would it be hard? Yeah absolutely. But I’ve never accepted “but it’s so hard!!” as valid reason to hold off positive progress.

What “normal solutions” are actually in progress with any real potential of happening? Be for fucking real.

Meanwhile what insane doomsday scenario do you think would happen if Google services were banned and people had the given period to find alternatives?

You’re talking about a fantasy solution that doesn’t exist then blowing the consequences of this possible action wildly out of proportion in gross hyperbole.

Yes you’re right, blocking a single corporation is totally similar to dropping a nuclear weapon on a civilian site, you’ve shown me the error of my ways.

Holy fucking hyperbole, Batman!

Taking a stance against corporate overreach feels extremely necessary to me.

Worthwhile chaos. It’s exactly that fear of consequences that enables their power

You don’t mourn when the dragon devouring the town is slain, you celebrate.

I dunno about iPhone but for Android the loops app isn’t on the app store yet because the whole thing is still in dev. Once you get your invite email there’s a link on the site to download the APK for the app.

Yes, I’m sure this kind of conversation happens. But that’s about it. I feel confident nobody, nobody, on earth cares about Gatorade enough to organically make the meme in question. Like what kind of psychopath is putting that kind of importance on fucking Gatorade, even as a joke? This is an astroturfed corporate meme, y’all.

And that is novel but common enough to be expressed in meme? Come on.

/r/HailCorporate?

Maybe I’m the outlier, but I don’t think normal people are out here having significant conversations about Gatorade on the regular in the first place. And I sure as hell don’t believe that anyone organically genuinely gives even half a shit what anyone else calls it. Just call it “shit water” like everyone else and more on.

Imo we need to start attaching criminal penalties to the people behind businesses that knowingly abuse their power and position like this. Corporate bullying isn’t a financial position, it’s a failing of ethics.