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> except not at the behest of the gov Not so sure about that. Silicon Valley has some crazy ties to American intelligence agencies.
by geowwy 7y ago
> except not at the behest of the gov
Not so sure about that. Silicon Valley has some crazy ties to American intelligence agencies.
- mc32 7y agoWhat I mean is, unlike the CCP, Congress isn't dictating what is permitted and not and what gets erased in a rather low-latency fashion. They're not telling the WaPo and Reddit and Buzzfeed to delete all posts or telling all apps and sites to remove content which makes Trump (or previously Obama) look bad... for starters and they're not controlling public opinion on social issues either as another example. They have agendas, but they’re not dictated by the gov., although sometimes their respective agendas coincide. It’s really not comparable.
- geowwy 7y agoI agree there's not the blatant censoring of info, but the government does put a lot of resources into controlling public opinion. Troll farms are a big thing, as well as exploiting connections in big tech and the media. There are also a lot of NGOs and political parties doing the same thing.