#regulate the rich

[living400lbs]

"If your motorboat leaks a little gas into the water, the warden’ll write you up. But if companies leak thousands of gallons of it and kill all the life here? The state lets them go. If you shoot an endangered brown pelican, they’ll put you in jail. But if a company kills the brown pelican by poisoning the fish he eats? They let it go. I think they overregulate the bottom because it’s harder to regulate the top.” ...

The higher up the ladder of power, the more likely one was to get off; the lower down, the less likely. Environmental regulation was like that.

From Strangers In Their Own Land by Arlie Russell Hochschild

[thesearchofthingstointrigue]

The idea that Apple is single handedly trying to institute a Corprocratic Version of an internet era Hayes Code is just disturbing and further evidence that if corporations are to have the powers that might be reserved to government that they must be taxed and regulated more. The internet should be something of the public domain that, if regulated, must be done though institutions that, ideally, represent the public, the people, at large, i.e.: governments, and not corporations/businesses whose remit is to only represent themselves and their financial interests which often do not match up with the interests of the public at large. I have always had a special disdain and distrust of Apple, especially when they dominated the MP3 market with their iPods choking out their competitors, and this further restricting of content along with their actions that contributed to the Great Tumblr Purge of December 17, 2018, is further evidence that they should be not trusted.