In The Tech Coup: How to Save Democracy from Silicon Valley, Marietje Schaake, a Stanford HAI Policy Fellow, reveals how tech companies are encroaching on governmental roles, posing a threat to the democratic rule of law.
  • TingoTenga@lemmy.worldEnglish
    501·
    2 months ago

    Not only governance suffers.

    Entertain me for a moment. Imagine a utopia in which you don’t need to distrust technology or guard yourself against the companies that control it. No data harvesting or sharing; your privacy, likes and preferences safe and your own. No schemes to come up with algorithms that enrage you and dominate your attention. Imagine that you could trust LLMs to be trained with only the best, curated sources and where their operation is completely open and transparent. Imagine how we would express ourselves through our tech and through social media. Technology would become deeply, deeply personal, benign, helpful and at the service of humankind… as it should be.

    The idea is so crazy that it is borderline unthinkable, right?

  • workerONE@lemmy.worldEnglish
    35·
    2 months ago

    Third party campaigning is BS. All campaigning should be done by the candidate and all donations should go through their campaign. All donors should be public or the list should be available to the government for auditing. Companies aren’t people, they don’t have rights from the Constitution, they shouldn’t be allowed to campaign or contribute.

  • kameecoding@lemmy.worldEnglish
    22·
    2 months ago

    On one hand this is obvious, on the other hand when I mentioned to my friends that rising inequality leads to a rise in fascism they looked at me like I was an idiot, so the more info is out there the better.

  • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.worldEnglish
    161·
    2 months ago

    Me: “DUUUUUHHHHHH!!!”

    Seriously. How many centuries has this been basic fucking common sense???!!!

    • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.worldEnglish
      41·
      2 months ago

      Shock face? You mean like when you get tazered by the police? As you do, in the modern day…

    • SkyNTP@lemmy.mlEnglish
      14·
      2 months ago

      This situation has come to be, through the ignorance and inaction of ordinary people. Your attitude is part of the problem.

    • Otter@lemmy.caOPEnglish
      8·
      2 months ago

      Research and organized information on a topic, however obvious it might be, is an important step towards policy changes. We also see those changes from time to time, for example some recent EU decisions