It would be a lot simpler if cyberspace was declared a sovereign territory and Google became the official government of it, answerable to no other government on questions of digital affairs. That way they'd have the power to put all the spammers and ransomware gangs in their goolag for a very long time. Think this is a bad idea? Great for you. Keep letting people like Donald Trump be your digital government. Heck, make Google the government of meatspace too. If every neightborhood in America was run as well as a Google office, we'd all be living in paradise. Even in Google's currently evil debased declined state, it's still infinitely more competent and better than your corrupt compromised legacy government institutions.
> Even in Google's currently evil debased declined state, it's still infinitely more competent and better than your corrupt compromised legacy government institutions.
Corporations are only efficient when they have corporate responsibilities. Corporations do only efficiency and can select customers. Government must guarantee equality and rights for everyone. Even criminals are citizens with rights.
Let me demonstrate. This is how Google would do it:
(1) Algorithm captures 90% of all criminals (it's a good algorithm)
(2) 5% (1/20) change that flagged account is a criminal (95% false positives)
(3) 0.01% (1/10000) of all accounts are flagged.
There are around 246 million unique Google users in the US. Closing just 24,600 accounts removes 90%
of criminals. 90% change of capture is a good deterrent.
Google also removes 23,370 innocent accounts.
GOOGLE DOES THIS ALREADY. It's efficient and well-run (actual numbers may vary) but also brutal and unjust. Legacy government institutions do their job better than Google would.
Government maintains a system that enables you to protect your rights, and process to participate. That system can't be very efficient, because you need to have paper trail, and bureaucratic process. It's the process that gives you change to seek justice and protect your rights.
With Google you can only post complaint to HN and wish that someone working in Google notices, or that there is enough publicity to shame them.
Maybe that's true for some governments. Or maybe it was true a long time ago. In America I question whether our government is actually even the government. One thing I like about Google is they don't claim to provide services they don't actually do. I'm glad you live in a place where the system that governs you worked well enough to earn your trust.
I think Americans have forgotten what the government is. It's the job of the people to fix and constantly maintain the government because if they don't own it, someone else will.
It seems like Reaganism never left America. People from right to left have adopted the talking points and the attitude. If there are problems in the government, it's suddenly all bullshit and good for nothing. Talk in a passive voice where the government just happens.
