An enormous thread on alleged Google Facebook collusion (twitter.com)

Article summary

A complaint from the Texas Attorney General has been released, alleging collusion between Google and Facebook. The complaint was first filed in December and has now been released in an unredacted form. The allegations are based on a thread on Twitter, which highlights the newly unredacted parts of the complaint in purple. The complaint is part of an ongoing investigation into the tech companies' business practices.

Main themes

• tech company ethics
• capitalism and sociopathy
• employer-employee relationships
• government regulation
• market self-correction
• concentration of power and wealth

What commenters say

• Capitalism rewards sociopathic behavior and discourages kindness and empathy, leading to unethical practices in large tech companies.
• The size and power of tech companies like Google and Facebook lead to cartel behavior and attempts to control every facet of their environment.
• The relationship between employer and employee in a capitalist system is inherently unfair, with the employer having more power and control over the employee.
• Some argue that the problems with tech companies are not inherent to capitalism, but rather a result of poor government regulation and oversight.
• Others believe that the issues with tech companies are a natural result of the pursuit of profit and growth, and that it is unrealistic to expect companies to prioritize ethics over profits.
• The concentration of power and wealth in the hands of a few large tech companies is seen as a major contributor to the problems of unethical behavior and exploitation.
• Some commenters argue that the solution to these problems lies in greater government regulation and oversight, while others believe that the market can self-correct and that government intervention would be counterproductive.