[FRIAM] on government

[glen]

How Telegram's Founder Pavel Durov Became a Culture War Martyr
https://www.404media.co/how-telegrams-founder-pavel-durov-became-a-culture-war-martyr/

Mark Zuckerberg says White House ‘pressured’ Facebook to censor Covid-19 content
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/article/2024/aug/27/mark-zuckerberg-says-white-house-pressured-facebook-to-censor-covid-19-content

What does it mean to "govern"? I frequently hear things like "Democrats actually govern" in contrast to culture warring, grifting, personal branding, etc. I mean, I welcomed Biden's very boring tenure. I'm hoping Kamala is elected and that she'll be as boring as Biden. If I don't hear from someone, it prolly means they're working ... doing their job. No news is good news. But even if Durov's arrest is solely about his complicity by association with the app and his lack of governance of that as a platform, I still kindasorta think the French prosecutor (prosecutors?) is doing a good job of governing in assigning him that agency, his share of the blame.

Sure, JD Vance is in Thiel's pocket. But most of our neoliberal Democrats are also in the pockets of large corporations or rich vampires. Can it be any other way? Can an American politician *actually* govern? Or is it all smoke and mirrors?

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