Shock Horror, Big Tech Is Bad For Democracy?!
A brilliant project confirms what we all thought all along.
Unless you have been living under a rock the past decade, you have probably noticed big-tech corporate America has become more and more anti-democratic, monopolistic, anti-worker rights, and generally more evil. These overlords have held our digital and real lives in a vice-like grip and still expect more and more from us. Or, at least, that’s how it feels. Well, the refreshingly honest project Corporate Underminers of Democracy by the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) aims to rank which corporations wreak the most havoc on our democracy and freedom and has discovered that the world’s biggest tech companies top the list. Not only do these companies hold anti-democratic and egregious practices within their operations, but they also “deploy complex lobbying operations to undermine popular will and disrupt existing or nascent global policy that could hold them accountable.” These findings, in effect, confirmed our worst fears. But how bad is it really?
So, who do you think the ITUC ranked as the worst offender?
Well, you might be surprised to find out it was Amazon!
Amazon has become synonymous with violating workers’ rights, from firing people for taking toilet breaks, providing…