Big Tech companies are finally getting the names we thought dystopian megacorps would have

salarua@sopuli.xyz to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world – 1377 points –

Meta Platforms. X Corp. tell me those aren't straight from a strangely prescient cyberpunk classic

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Now we just need companies to have their own militaries and then for someone to nuke one of their towers. We'd have the whole nine yards.

"He burned down half the city just to prove he was right and burned the other half just for fun."

Source? Please.

He burned down half the city just to prove he was right and burned the other half just for fun.

Cyberpunk

I could absolutely see a not-too-distant future where competitors of megacorps have their assets attacked by the government’s military.

This has already happened many times. It’s just that those “competitors” are usually referred to as “ordinary people.”

Sad upvote.

I was thinking more as a mundane mechanism to gain market share though, not necessarily punishment or collateral damage.

…but I guess it applies even then. Sigh.

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