GAFAM is a National and International Threat to Everybody
Carole Cadwalladr, who got subjected to lawfare [1, 2, 3] because of her decent coverage about Brexit and GAFAM's role in Brexit (she had exposed a lot of legitimate issues and nobody is infallible), recently published "Peter Thiel's New Model Army" (Thiel is raiding the NHS - Microsoft being his proxy - and attacks the press by proxy to punish his critics). Cadwalladr said: "It sounds like writerly hyperbole to describe the UK as a vassal state, but I mean it in its most literal sense. It's explicitly stated in the ur-text of Trump's White Houses foreign policy, the National Security Strategy document, that US companies will be used as instruments of state power. There is no hidden agenda here: Trump has set it all out. (For a breakdown of this document and what it all means, see this weeks piece in the Nerve by former British diplomat, Arthur Snell..."
Having just mentioned Red Hat's very strong connections to the US Military and GAFAM being bailed out (or propped up) at taxpayers' expense (endless debt, inflation), it seems relevant that this new article ("The Fed Is Quietly Bailing Out Wall Street") helps confirm what we wrote just yesterday. As an associate put it: "Has the federal government taken the opportunity to bail out Microsoft yet again, too?"
And "apropos technical sovereignty vs software / OS vendors," consider what Cadwalladr showed.
GAFAM is just a tentacle in service of imperialism.
The world needs to treat GAFAM as what it is; enough with the greenwashing that we mentioned some hours ago. GAFAM is destructive and a net loss. █