Larry and David Ellison already formed Paramount Skydance (which includes CBS), and may soon control...
Tik Tok (Oracle is working with Silver Lake and Andreessen Horowitz to buy it, in a deal negotiated by...the white house?)
and are bidding to take control of Time Warner Discovery, which owns CNN
2025 could be the Ellison's year to finally lose their underdog status for evil and really step into the spotlight
― z_tbd, Wednesday, 17 September 2025 19:12 (one month ago)
i'm back on microsoft now i think. we've come full circle
― ciderpress, Wednesday, 17 September 2025 19:18 (one month ago)
what's microsoft's case this year?
― z_tbd, Wednesday, 17 September 2025 19:27 (one month ago)
supporting israel with genocide software whilst also spearheading the massive AI bubble that's going to end the US economy
― ciderpress, Wednesday, 17 September 2025 19:41 (one month ago)
Palantir seems the most big-brother evil at this moment
― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 17 September 2025 19:44 (one month ago)
X/Twitter
― Lee626, Wednesday, 17 September 2025 20:49 (one month ago)
^^
― sleeve, Wednesday, 17 September 2025 20:49 (one month ago)
X/Twitter as an extension of Elon Musk's ego and reflection of his politics, certainly qualifies as enormously evil, but does it qualify as an "enormous tech company" by any other measures?
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Wednesday, 17 September 2025 20:55 (one month ago)
I’m even more old school I think Digital Electronics can make a big evil comeback
― Mr. T's Ballroom (Boring, Maryland), Wednesday, 17 September 2025 22:33 (one month ago)
nintendo is the worst enormous tech company. no nintendogs at the last nintendo direct, what gives
― z_tbd, Wednesday, 17 September 2025 22:38 (one month ago)
While they are technically separate companies, I tend to think of Musk's companies (X, Tesla, SpaceX and its subsidiary Starlink) almost as a single entity given shared management. And I find Twitter/X more worrisome than Facebook, Google, etc of late because a widely-used social network has been actively repurposed as a platform to boost far-right ideologies across the world (such as AfD in Germany) as well as in its home country. Some will chime in saying other tech companies have done this too, but for those it tends to be a passive rather than active effort, such as algorithms feeding far-right content to people who view other far-right content. Not their CEO retweeting posts from bigots, misogynists, and Nazis.
― Lee626, Wednesday, 17 September 2025 23:07 (one month ago)
Oh, and all of those Musk properties range from the strongest in their field to outright monopolies
― Lee626, Wednesday, 17 September 2025 23:09 (one month ago)
so yes, enormous tech company
I thought these were polls, yes X by far the worst
― sleeve, Wednesday, 17 September 2025 23:11 (one month ago)
The Elonigarchy - X/Tesla/Palantir = no contest
― sarahell, Thursday, 18 September 2025 00:11 (one month ago)
I thought these were polls
unfortunately due to budget cuts and the loss of a key grant, polls on the worst tech company threads have been sacked for the forseeable future :(
― z_tbd, Thursday, 18 September 2025 16:09 (one month ago)
Whenever I see a picture of Larry Ellison I think it's Mickey Rourke:https://wordpress.wbur.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/AP25253632194872-1000x667.jpg
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 1 October 2025 13:24 (two weeks ago)