From 8ee9079ddeb459f619beab608ae3f72b302a80bc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Flancian <0@flancia.org> Date: Sat, 4 May 2024 00:30:23 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] autopushed --- Open Letter to Google.md | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/Open Letter to Google.md b/Open Letter to Google.md index a00b3164b..14122bdc7 100644 --- a/Open Letter to Google.md +++ b/Open Letter to Google.md @@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ An Agora, in short, is a pro-social device which tries to be [[free]], [[fair]] Google is a corporation and a community of employees (traditionally "Googlers", assumed to be practicing "Googlyness" :) In this letter, we will comment on how Google was and how Google is, and what Google could be (again?). -Being mostly profit driven as of the time of writing, Google need not be free at all times; but in this letter I make the argument that, given its position of relevance at this stage of the evolution of the first known internet, it *should* be increasingly fair and democratic within its possibilities. +Being mostly profit driven as of the time of writing, Google need not be free at all times; but in this letter I make the argument that, given its position of relevance and control at this stage of the evolution of the [[first known internet]], it *should* try to become increasingly fair ("democratic") within available market-reality-bound possibilities. # Google should consider becoming more democratic Most corporations have historically not been democratic at all; governance wise they tend to be (or become) highly hierarchical, in particular as they age and emergent hierarchies solidify and negotiate market pressures.