Have you even looked at my comment history to decide what kind of person I am, or did you decide that purely from where I registered my account over a year ago?
Fluke
joined 2 years ago
Same thing. Include those under the same law and solve both problems at once. 💛
"The Media", or more accurately, those that own and run the media, put so much weight to those "rules" because they preclude the raising of taxes on the aforementioned owners of media.
No, no, and thrice no.
Technocracy implies a ruling elite of experts in their field, individuals with actual learning and genuine expertise in their given fields.
This is fascist plutocracyb government by the hyper-rich with no more qualifications than "I have no morals and am willing to climb over others' faces while wearing steel spikes to get yet more."
There is a world of difference.
You. I like you. Keep doing what you're doing. 💛
I'm repeatedly told "The market abhors a vacuum", that is to say; I really don't care, that's not my problem.
To consumers, Amazon sells cheap shit people can live without, or stuff that can be had elsewhere already.
To business, Amazon rents server capacity and infrastructure, alternatives to which exist in droves.
Amazon is Amazon because they use every anticompetitive edge they can to squeeze out alternatives to themselves. Fuck 'em, they're a cancer.
Oh, because we'd be at a great loss here if Amazon suddenly disappeared. What with their poverty wages the government has to top up, and the avoiding paying tax, and their exploitation of, well everything.
No leverage?
Pay your fair share of tax, or lose access to this market you're making millions from. That seems like leverage enough to me, am I missing something?
By free speech, they mean "free to be Nazis without repercussions" not "free to call Israel out for it's war crimes and genocide".
"The government" offered money for the task, and thousands took that money and got on with the job.
"The Government" is people. Usually the worst, most manipulative self-serving people. It does what other people let it get away with.