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Fair enough. Do you not see the problem with a monopoly deciding what is and isn't okay to say? You're comparing people who comment on websites to nazis? Did
by kaolti 7y ago
Fair enough.
Do you not see the problem with a monopoly deciding what is and isn't okay to say?
You're comparing people who comment on websites to nazis? Did you not get the memo about the media calling everyone they don't like a nazi - including Pewdiepie?
Do you really think these companies have YOUR best interest at heart instead of just siding with the political views of their shareholders?
- zimpenfish 7y ago> including Pewdiepie? I think one Nazi-related mistake might be forgiveable. When it keeps happening, well, you've got to start thinking the tar on the brush is from the same pot.
- WAHa_06x36 7y agoI am calling nazis nazis. Gab has a very large population of actual nazis. It also is the home of people who go shoot up large crowds of people for having the wrong religion. I feel pretty confident in calling these people bad names.
- DuskStar 7y agoI feel rather confident in saying that Gab does NOT have a very large population of actual nazis when using sane definitions for 'very large' and 'nazis'. Let's say... 10k and unironic 'Sieg Heil!'. Or, really, anywhere close to that. But if you use the media/leftist definition of 'nazi', which seems to be 'anyone to have ever made a politically incorrect joke or to have associated with the same', then OF COURSE you'll find a very large population of nazis. But you'll find that anywhere.
- belltaco 7y agoThere are actually very few jokes on Voat or Gab. Also, neo-Nazis are different from actual Nazis.
- untog 7y agoFirefox and Chrome can't both be a monopoly.
- Ygg2 7y agoChrome is a monopoly. Firefox is just a backbench player at this point.
- ShrinkingWild 7y agoWhat resources have chrome monopolised to prevent other browsers from being provided? If chrome is a monopoly, why can I just go download firefox or opera or internet explorer? Chrome isn't a monopoly, it's just the most popular/best on the market at the moment.
- Ygg2 7y agoGoogle used its influence via Web Search to expand into the field of Web Browsers. So Google used it's Web presence to recommend Chrome. Additionally, Google used it's Web Services (e.g. Google Mail, Google Docs, YouTube) to nudge users in the direction of Chrome. If YouTube works best with Chrome, people will flock to it. Finally, Chrome might be the popular choice, but the most popular choice can be quite heinous in other ways.
- ShrinkingWild 7y agoYes, Google promoted themselves on their own services, what's the problem with that? The influence gained from their prowess in web search was legitimate, I don't see a problem with them leveraging that. If chrome was garbage it wouldn't have helped. And yes, Google's products and services work best inside Google's browser. There's no problem there either, they can stop you using them in other browsers completely if they like, it's their property to do with as they please. You're free not to use chrome or any of Google's services, there are other options, so Google is not a monopoly.
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- belltaco 7y ago>including Pewdiepie Didn't he pay third worlders money to hold up signs saying "death to all jews" ? Isn't that what the Nazis tried to do, somewhat successfully? The media is supposed to like him for things like that or what?
- forgottenpass 7y ago>Isn't that what the Nazis tried to do, somewhat successfully? No. The Nazis did not post spicy jokes about genocide to the internet. They committed genocide. Slight difference.
- kaolti 7y agoHow weird is it that this needs pointing out.
- belltaco 7y agoCalling for genocide is a spicy joke? How does calling for killing an entire group of people sound funny to you? Not to mention paying really poor people in the third world to hold up offensive things, I guess exploiting poor people also sounds funny to you.