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Glenn Greenwald (The Truth About Trump)

Stay Free with Russell Brand

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The Tension of Corporate Power

The idea of the internet was supposed to be that it would be a way to empower individuals to speak with one another. A lot of the people who run these big tech companies were the pioneers of that kind of era and they do still have this thing in them that resists this control. But when you have a public company worth hundreds of billions of dollars your acceptance in good liberal society is dependent upon social acceptance, which all human beings are constructed to crave. It's in our DNA because we're tribal animals.

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