More generally, the Information Age means that we need less and less peopleware to manage data and shepherd people.
The last holdout, of course, is government.

Your capacity to rationalize fascism by laundering it through re-purposed terminology befits a prior century. *Golf clap*

Not with newer phones; Verizon's new model phones all deliver SMS via the data network. That's why your texts are sent so much faster than they used to be, the phone doesn't have to deal with contention to secure a channel on the voice network just to send 140 bytes. Voice is going there too, see VoLTE. Eventually it's all just going to be packets. The carrier's voice and SMS services will get special QoS treatment but that's the only thing that will be special about them.

So you seem to say that disagreement == bigotry? Or is my refusal to accede to you bogus reasoning, itself, bigotry? Am I venturing into microagression territory here? Should I put a trigger warning on all my posts? Is this a subtle white privilege play? Do all roads lead to racism? Could you be more mockable?

The unintentional hilarity of YOUR shiny, new, fascist tribalism is its nihilistic inability to perpetuate hooey, but not the tribe itself.
I denounce myself afresh as the bad guy for upholding the notion that Form Follows Function; Flees Foolishness; Flames Falsehood.

Heh heh heh. Yeah.

No, that was Hastert.

<Beavis and Butthead laugh>You said "cock-pit"</Beavis and Butthead laugh>

I'm afraid of heights?

Patience.

Accusing someone of bigotry, just because they don't concur with an idea, is not the same as showing a specific instance of intolerance toward the subscribers of an idea.
I hope you can understand that you're leaving yourself wide open for fascism here.
The real issues involve power and money, of course. No one quite seems to grasp that, if there was not so much societal sculpture afoot via the tax code, we could all just do our thing much more in peace.
But try to share some real analysis, and get called a troll, or worse. What are you going to do?

If you've got a dog in your cockpit, that's TMI. But I hope you've a speedy recovery.

While there are certainly people who are running chrome on different unlinked devices, this measurement is probably still a lot more meaningful than when facebook says it has 12 billion users. Similarly, I'm not sure how meaningful the measurement of 900 million gmail accounts is; I have more than one myself.

What IS of consequence is whether the CEO took a "golden parachute" while leaving the employees unpaid. Excecutives should be the LAST at the bankruptcy trough in my books. THEY'RE the ones responsible for the condition of the company, so any losses should be out of THEIR pockets.