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The difference is choice. Companies can offer whatever they want and it's up to me to decide whether I consume their products and services or not. Government o
by OCASM 9y ago
The difference is choice. Companies can offer whatever they want and it's up to me to decide whether I consume their products and services or not.
Government on the other hand makes the decision and forces it on everyone. Not just those who elected it, everyone.
Edit: as for the foreign propaganda, how many nations and what interests were/are they peddling? If it's already illegal then sure, it should be forbidden from the network. If it's not, then I'm fine with it.
- AlexandrB 9y ago> The difference is choice. Companies can offer whatever they want and it's up to me to decide whether I consume their products and services or not. Please, tell me how I can escape Google? God knows I've tried - I have a Fastmail email account, I use DDG, and I stick to Apple hardware. That doesn't change the fact >90% of advertising I see on the open web is still "suggested" for me by Google's algorithms, that my employer uses Google Apps and Google Drive for just about everything, that many links I encounter on social networks are AMP, and that most of time I need to verify I'm not a bot I'm filling in a recaptcha. Saying I have a choice not to use Google is only true in the academic sense. It's theoretically possible, but not without extreme effort and probably not without finding a career outside of the tech industry.
- OCASM 9y agoYou can choose to switch jobs and not use the internet :p What you don't have is the power to make others choose what you'd want them to.