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I was kind of joking, but kind of not, when I said a few weeks back that eventually Google, Facebook and Twitter would start selling Silencing as a Service (Saa
by rdtsc 9y ago
I was kind of joking, but kind of not, when I said a few weeks back that eventually Google, Facebook and Twitter would start selling Silencing as a Service (SaaS). Whoever pays more gets to control the manufacture of consent -- all of the sudden those who like different brands, political candidates, who don't believe the correct things will simply get their accounts deactivated.
- tsunamifury 9y agoWhy would they sell it? That undermines the fundamentals of the product.
- TeMPOraL 9y agoBecause they actually can deliver on this, there are plenty of would-be buyers, and there's little regular folks can do about it. They know people won't stop using their services, because they're too critical in day-to-day lives.
- smsm42 9y agoFor Facebook, the users are not consumers, but the raw material. The advertisers are the consumers. Of course, Facebook won't want to lose the eyeballs, but the way most people use FB would almost not changed, maybe very slightly - so within a small margin, nobody would leave.
- smsm42 9y agoI'm pretty sure they already kinda started, only, like top-level credit cards, it's invite-only and not advertised, but done only for "special friends" on "special occasions". People with don't believe correct things have been losing accounts on Twitter and Facebook for quite some time already.
- wallace_f 9y agoYep. And the slippery slope argument is valid. Democracy is better served by strengthening voices of the people, rather than consolidating it in the hands corporate-governmemt elites in the name of fake news.
- coldtea 9y ago>when I said a few weeks back that eventually Google, Facebook and Twitter would start selling Silencing as a Service (SaaS) Would start?
- stonewhite 9y agoIt is kind of interesting how these group of companies(Google, Facebook, Cloudflare) spin "Net Neutrality" when they have it their way, and then blackout sites when particular demographics demand it to be so. Most notably gab.ai. I don't defend or care what gab.ai does, but the hypocrisy is maddening.
- jgrahamc 9y agogab.ai appears to be on Cloudflare: $ dig +short NS gab.ai ara.ns.cloudflare.com. terry.ns.cloudflare.com.