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Amazon, Tesla and Meta among world’s top companies undermining democracy – report
(www.theguardian.com)
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Deeply confused, because these are all American companies and America is supposed to be the freest, bestest, most democratic country in the world.
well it kind of is, for large companies
I know you're being ironic but it makes only sense they're American. If they weren't, some US court would've torpedoed them to bits with lawsuits and tarifs like they always do. They love that stupid foreign money but don't hurt their own American darlings for doing the same harm to everyone.
Examples? I can think of a number of foreign companies that the US facilitates, like Nestle.
The most blatant examples in recent years are Monsanto and the Diesel scandal. Monsanto was an untouchable force until they got essentially taken over and now it rains lawsuits to extract stupid german money from them. US courts wouldn't be so willing to make them pay in a million years if they still were American.
Same with the Diesel scandal really, though the hypocrisy is even more obvious here. Again, stupid german money. American car makers that did the exact same thing? Slap on the wrist at best.
Miele tarifs under Trump? Well here he just feared superior quality, really. They didn't even do anything.
And now we're seeing the same treatment with foreign tech companies. The American government wants to block TikTok or at least be in full control of it but can't really do so without looking like big fat hypocrites. And now other countries wonder if they should block Facebook, Google and Xitter for the same reason. They threaten democracy and our freedom.