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Big Tech companies are finally getting the names we thought dystopian megacorps would have

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

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Zink@programming.dev
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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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Convict45@lemmy.world
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This has already happened many times. It’s just that those “competitors” are usually referred to as “ordinary people.”

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Zink@programming.dev
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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.

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