Right, so, let’s educate you, shall we? First off, do you mean (a) right libertarian or (b) left libertarian? (As these are entirely different things.) If you mean to imply that I’m right libertarian, you can fuck right off. If you mean left libertarian, guilty as charged…https://twitter.com/FreakkaerF/status/979200526624673792 …
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The thing is, if Google stops paying Mozilla ~ half a billion dollars/year, Mozilla goes bankrupt. In common parlance, this is referred to as Mozilla being Google’s bitch. But even if Mozilla wasn’t entirely funded by surveillance capitalism, any funding would be influence…https://twitter.com/aral/status/979236018665730049 …
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Now look at how Mozilla positions itself: a not-for-profit working to protect privacy, human rights, & democracy in the digital age. Hmm, and it gets all its money from one of the biggest threats to privacy, human rights, & democracy in the digital age. Can you say “whitewash?”https://twitter.com/aral/status/979236834046894080 …
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What if Greenpeace got half a billion dollars from Exxon Mobil every year and would go bankrupt if it couldn’t get paid by the fossil fuel industry. Would you be as naïvely trusting of it too? And the issue of institutional corruption goes far beyond Mozilla…https://twitter.com/aral/status/979237747796869120 …
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Institutional corruption is the reason we cannot regulate toxic corporations effectively. The same influence of corporate finance that taints Mozilla also taints public policymaking via lobbying and revolving doors.https://twitter.com/aral/status/979238418122190848 …
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In the Brussels bubble, for example, it’s hard – in the words of Orwell – to differentiate the pigs from the humans sometimes.https://twitter.com/aral/status/979239312834334721 …
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Given that institutional corruption is an existential risk to democracy, to have a
@Piratenpartei MEP’s assistant label criticism of it as “libertarianism” is either the product of extreme naïveté or, quite frankly, both highly baffling and hugely worrying. Class dismissed.https://twitter.com/aral/status/979240643036884992 …Show this thread
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