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I don't understand why you're so comfortable having a giant corporation decide what's true. HN is so bizare sometimes.
by cameronbrown 7y ago
I don't understand why you're so comfortable having a giant corporation decide what's true. HN is so bizare sometimes.
- high_derivative 7y agoCynically, because he believes them on his side?
- koolba 7y ago... for now.
- sametmax 7y agoGoogle is not a public service. They are a for profit company. They are not our friends, their youtube ranking algo is not designed to be fair and improve the life of human kind. It's designed to make money. I don't get the outrage: we warned people for 15 years this would happen. Now people put all their eggs in the same basket and cry when things go wrong. Well, good. It's a learning opportunity.
- cameronbrown 7y agoThere is a massive, massive difference between a trillion dollar company optimising for money and optimising for "the truth". I prefer my corporations greedy instead of virtuous, it's much more trustworthy.
- PavlovsCat 7y agoThere is a lot of money and power in shaping what is considered to be true.
- pjc50 7y agoThe alternative is having a giant corporation heedlessly promote lies which will get people killed. "You shouldn't be able to poison the well" is not invalidated if the well is owned by a corporation.