Thread by @yhazony

What does “power corrupts” mean?

It means you get drunk on your own sense of vast strength. You no longer fear to cross boundaries that morality and prudence used to set for you.

You lose the ability to *feel* where the red lines are.

https://twitter.com/sohrabahmari/status/1316446749729398790

Two years ago, Facebook banned advertising for my book. They sent a few automated messages.

I remember thinking: These creeps don’t that know that they’re the abusers. They don’t know that they’re becoming the super-villains in a story they wrote themselves.

Step by step, they’ve grown more powerful. Step by step, they’ve grown more corrupt.

Now they’ve reached the point where they would publicly steal an election if they could get away with it.

They have no red lines. They don’t even know it’s wrong.

I have libertarian friends who think it’s only evil when government grows too strong and too corrupt.

Today, we see clearly that this isn’t true.

When a private company grows so powerful and corrupt that it thinks there’s no problem with stealing an election, that’s evil too.

What my libertarian friends don’t understand is:

When a private company grows so powerful and corrupt that it’s capable of stealing an election—at that moment it *becomes* the government.