Tech companys are paid to hack the customers brains in one way or another. The add buisness is nothing but a plausibel veneer for the "free services to exist" that allow to manipulate, observe and destroy.
The reason for the whole thing to be is obvious. Governments and companys are scared shitless of the multi-crisis coming up and want levers to pull that dont break and contain dissent. And they want to come out of the crisis, sitting on top of the ash heap. This is the actual buisness model and purpose to exist, not the friendly colorful sweets shop upfront.
Panopticon. Social egineering. Leviathancybernetics. Because solving problems for politicians is not a worthy endavour.
They want to solve the "meta"-problem that is the enraged citizen, the protesting org, the social unravelling forces that could uproot them.
Solution: Let them fight, blue vs greens, instead of discussing and forcing actual problem solutions.
Big Tech is now a integral part of the big problem in democracy.
This is just a gross manipulation of societal discourse. Yet another reason the biggest tech companies need to be broken up or regulated like the public utilities they are.
Politics too. People are far too eager to cede power to these big tech companies just because it will hurt those on the other side of the political spectrum now - without realizing that that power is gone forever. DMCA takedown, demonetization and ad revenue scene, privacy - it's all the same story.
Global tech companies are a bit bonkers to think that they can get the voted political establishment to comply with increasingly human-hostile behaviours as well ;)
I mean, the purpose of this attack was to get more business...
That said, no big tech company is a simple tech company anymore. They've all become (arguably they always were) political, geopolitical, and adversarial entities.
Basically. I get the "its their service, and you agreed to the terms" but these tech corps are so big and powerful its on a scale unimaginable when these laws and ideas were originally created and its probably time to rethink how we let corporations run when they basically control the world.
I am also worried. It feels like Big Tech flourished in last 4 years with advertisement revenue while staying hush about these issues, but all of a sudden they have an epiphany now.
Big Tech leaders are selfish, cowards, clueless and just as vulnerable as the government leaders. They were interested in milking billions in Ads from these hate speech, particularly Twitter.
If I were employees at these big companies, I would raise internal questions - why wasn't this done earlier? What changed? The US Capitol riots is the specific moment that made them all wake up?
These are rhetorical questions. All big tech leaders appeared in front of Congress in last 4 years, and weasled and squeeked instead of prowl and roar. Spineless and immoral, speaking double speak to appease the board of directors and the shareholders. At some point, the world would be destroyed but we've created a lot of value for our shareholders. Reminds me of this [1]. Pardon my cynicism, open for your comments.
The claim that big tech itself is a threat to democracy needs to be debated. While they do manipulate their customers and sell their personal information for profit, the companies themselves have also been manipulated by the various groups in the world that are the actual threat to democracy.
The political polarization might not be caused by technology but instead only amplifies it.
One example where the tech companies are "guilty" is by having everyone live in their own confirmation bias bubble which is enabled by the algorithms they created.
What we seem to forget is that we all lived in confirmation bias bubbles before the internet.
We all believed our own local version of what the United States was until the various points in history where the dissonance was interrupted.
Now globalization and social media have shown people how different their respective views happen to be, feeding the polarization even more, and we find it easy to put the blame on technology.
The reason that big tech is corrupted is mass media and activists (here I mean anyone who pushes for their company to do good things rather than just neutral thinhs) within the big tech organization.
The (non-rightwing) news orgs had constantly been going on about the evils of Trump and racism and fake news and virus misinformation how very bad it all was, the activists were convinced (because most people don't know how the "news" sausage is made and how it misleads) and pushed to stamp out what they saw as dangerous behaviour. The solution is probably to stop trusting the news media and bring back freedom of communication.
Hang on, Hang on. Let's not get too carried away here. The big corps are all scared after what has/is happening to facebook, and this is an attempt at trying to "go down the unsteady river together" with the authorities.
Now, in an ideal world, where governments are ideal, then this is a good thing for the population, as the government theoretically represents the people.
However, the government is run by people and is not ideal. This is not a good thing, and will allow all sort of actual abuses of power occur, in the long run.
I read this as the tech industry trying to get the gov. in with them also. (even more than already so), in my opinion.
They are just appeasing the Democrats before they take control and break them up. Big Tech has had no issue offering services to third world dictatorships but when Americans drink the same koolaid, suddenly it's a pressing issue!
Just to be clear, I am not blaming them, I am just pointing out the hypocrisy.
Big tech is a strange animal, a leech on the human brain.
I wish the tech community can be unbiased and not politically motivated. While it rightfully bans conspiracy theories and right-wing extremism, it condones anything else that helps in furthering its ad-machine agenda: misinformation, crypto, terrorism, anti-gov, you name it.
I feel bad for the generation that engendered these tools and grew up in it, unknowingly participating in its brainwashing scheme to profit tech oligarchs.
Big tech is the real enemy, the government should go after them.
The reason for the whole thing to be is obvious. Governments and companys are scared shitless of the multi-crisis coming up and want levers to pull that dont break and contain dissent. And they want to come out of the crisis, sitting on top of the ash heap. This is the actual buisness model and purpose to exist, not the friendly colorful sweets shop upfront.
Panopticon. Social egineering. Leviathancybernetics. Because solving problems for politicians is not a worthy endavour.
They want to solve the "meta"-problem that is the enraged citizen, the protesting org, the social unravelling forces that could uproot them.
Solution: Let them fight, blue vs greens, instead of discussing and forcing actual problem solutions. Big Tech is now a integral part of the big problem in democracy.
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