Goodness. Is "leave it to the free market" what you took from my thread? To the contrary, while I very much believe in *harnessing* the power of markets, my thread is all about what kind of *policies* we need most to do so - gov't R&D and subsidies for new tech, specifically.
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Most of the IT sector was developed by government. The government has some democratic connection in that you can vote for a representative. Private sector has no democratic connection
To say that the private sector isn't democratic is to work with an incredibly constrained definition of democracy. All democracies leave a sphere of influence in which people are free to make decisions for themselves. There is a thing called civil society
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There is a board of directors appointed by private owners - it’s a straight tyranny
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By your definition the ACLU or the NYTimes are also "straight tyranny," because they are not under the direct control of the state. No one uses this definition of democracy other than socialists trying to replace democracy with socialism
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