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Well, yes, but in a broader sense, they have way too much of a stake in the control of global communications altogether. Even just a hiccup on their servers or slight change to their system has a global impact, as obviously evidenced here. The world is dangerously reliant on a centralized private company for daily functioning.

Such a powerful entity shouldn’t be controlled by private parties and needs to be governed in a way that the benefit of the people is kept paramount.

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So you are wanting to do what here exactly?

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Not really anything to do but draw attention to it… It’s not like we have an effective globally governing body to oversee something like this objectively.

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No, i meant what solution would you like to see here.

Like just taking the business away from the company and have the government seize it?

Because other than just building a new one that organically grows and becomes better, then I don’t see a solution.

Maybe regulate the hell out of it, but that’s basically just seizing it and forcing them to do what you want.

I do agree it is a precarious situation though

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