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Government finally had it with the amount of power they have over culture and messing with their 3 letter agency initiatives? I am one of those pessimistic fol
by icxa 7y ago
Government finally had it with the amount of power they have over culture and messing with their 3 letter agency initiatives?
I am one of those pessimistic folk who views everything on a geopolitical stage as a power struggle, so..
- Apocryphon 7y agoFrom the left, populist economists calling for Big Tech to be broken up for monopoly and tax dodging. From the right, culture warriors calling for regulation so their chosen avatars of free speech are not de-platformed. From the bottom, consumer advocates angry at the privacy abuses of large corporations, not to mention increasingly shoddy quality caused by lack of competition. From the top, as you mentioned- tech companies flouting state power, including in the realm of state surveillance. 十面埋伏 - attack from ten directions.
- xxxpupugo 7y agoWhich means they are legitimately too big and too powerful that affects every faction of the political spectrum.
- colpabar 7y agoThis is the best way to look at it. No matter what your political leanings, you have to admit maybe it's not the best thing if these companies can have such enormous influence over such an enormous percent of the entire human population.
- math-fan 7y ago十伏埋面 - ten volt buried surface
- not_a_moth 7y agoHoly smokes, since when did interest in our constitutional rights of free speech become a "right" thing? It seems like the "From the right" should be "right-wing belief that tech platforms push left-wing biases", true or not, that is their gripe.
- jyrkesh 7y agoSince a while. I'm definitively not a right-winger, but I increasingly have to align myself with folks whose speech I hate in order to defend free speech against folks I agree with on issues. Too many on the left are gleeful at the thought of deplatforming any and all of their detractors.
- remarkEon 7y agoIf we're being honest here, "Free Speech" has never really been a true philosophical maxim in this country. It's been a useful tool to acquire political and then, once acquired, it's jettisoned as a principle.
- ARandomerDude 7y ago> tech platforms push left-wing biases That's half of it. The other half is suppression of right-slanted content. The issue is monopoly status + pushing one side + suppressing the other side.
- vturner 7y agoAnd the down votes prove your point... Incredible.
- scarmig 7y agoI love how downvotes on Hacker News have become a totalitarian attack on free speech.
- PavlovsCat 7y agoThey're proof of cowardice and intellectual dishonesty. That's enough.
- ionised 7y agoOh the irony.