Nations are increasingly spending time trying to regulate what big tech companies do. The content they host, the ads they sell, the harms their algorithms cause to teenagers. But we always never look at what they are, the legal architecture that the state itself hands them.
Somebody is getting screwed in this country and somebody is doing the screwing. It's just not immigrants and Muslims and gay kids and drag shows. It's corporations and billionaires and super PACs.
The idea that while we are sort of, as individuals, trying to reduce our own use of plastic, that this huge, global, extremely wealthy and powerful industry was actually pouring billions of dollars into their plans to make more, it just kind of took my breath away.
5mo ago
Underscored — save the words that stop you in your tracks.
