sageikosa

Seriously, forward towards what? The "perfect society"?

Towards?

I can complain about going out in the rain and getting wet. End of story.

Protected in that you cannot be prosecuted for it perhaps.

You're thinking investment markets, not philanthropic giving markets. Any think tank is competitively attempting to gain funds to stay afloat. Some do this by lobbying for grants, some by soliciting private donations. But there's a finite amount of capacity to fund think tanks regardless of the source of income.

Google can certainly find other think tanks they like better.

He's not silenced, they just took away the podium that says "sponsored by Google".

Cool. 88 more pages of functional specs on every project.

...and a police force with arrest powers, and corporate compliance offices that follow the letter of the law, and federal investigators that try and parse code...

And once you get big, you can't get any more revenue.

And I want to be king.

Microsoft wasn't split. It was informed that they could only do so much product integration.

People can only manipulate millions of others easily when they are led to believe that they should be led.

I thought it was clearly stated. It's just not one of those things that adds to the conversation, except perhaps by demonstrating the same principles of the direct action via the downvote. It's so rare I get something I both disagree with and which demonstrates immediately by its subject matter how to deal with it.

Yes we can set definition of what is bad and what isn't. Enjoy my exercise of it with this downvote.

To my ear that's like saying evolution cannot sustain itself indefinitely. As long as there are generational selective pressures on imperfect replicators, evolution will continue.

Without a superstructure of omnipresent social domination to hinder or disrupt it, capitalism will be used where countable savings for investment and idea that promising accountable returns find themselves together.

Here's a thought to explain my defense of capitalism: capitalism doesn't cause corruption, but like anything else it is destroyed by corruption. Capitalism is used by the corrupt because it is so good at identifying that which the market values and in delivering it.