Meta Platforms. X Corp. tell me those aren’t straight from a strangely prescient cyberpunk classic

  • Zink@programming.dev
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    1 year ago

    I could absolutely see a not-too-distant future where competitors of megacorps have their assets attacked by the government’s military.

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      1 year ago

      This has already happened many times. It’s just that those “competitors” are usually referred to as “ordinary people.”

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        1 year ago

        Sad upvote.

        I was thinking more as a mundane mechanism to gain market share though, not necessarily punishment or collateral damage.

        …but I guess it applies even then. Sigh.