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It's so weird... when Google employees had a revolving door with the white house for Obama (voted twice for him and Hillary) nobody cared. It's utterly ridicul

It's so weird... when Google employees had a revolving door with the white house for Obama (voted twice for him and Hillary) nobody cared. It's utterly ridiculous that tech gets upset when someone they don't agree with uses their tools to accomplish something alternative to their ideas. This is the exact narrative the right uses to describe how hypocritical the left is.

mc32 7y ago
If that happened with a tech company’s management and the current admin there’d be protests, calls to investigate tech influence on elections, etc... but I digress...
rumanator 7y ago
> It's utterly ridiculous that tech gets upset when someone they don't agree with uses their tools to accomplish something alternative to their ideas. That's quite the euphemism for subverting democracy at the hands of authoritarian regimes.
- misterprime 7y ago
  What entity are you accusing of "subverting democracy at the hands of authoritarian regimes"? Is it Facebook? Is that because they aren't fighting fake news well enough? Is it because they are still accepting political ads without reviewing each one before it is posted? Who do you want to put in charge of reviewing all posts on all platforms before they are allowed to be published? What platform is doing better at this than Facebook right now?
  - rumanator 7y ago
    > Is it Facebook? Why, yes.
    - misterprime 7y ago
      Thanks for clearing that up. Interesting. Can you address the other questions as well?
  - drewrv 7y ago
    > What platform is doing better at this than Facebook right now? Traditional media has always fact checked political ads. If Facebook can't do it, that's a sign to me that they're too big to responsibly sell political ads. If Facebook is so powerful that too much power would reside in the hands of their fact checkers, that's a sign they should be broken up.
    - misterprime 7y ago
      What about user posts, and not paid political ads?

mc32 7y ago

If that happened with a tech company’s management and the current admin there’d be protests, calls to investigate tech influence on elections, etc... but I digress...

rumanator 7y ago

> It's utterly ridiculous that tech gets upset when someone they don't agree with uses their tools to accomplish something alternative to their ideas. That's quite the euphemism for subverting democracy at the hands of authoritarian regimes.

misterprime 7y ago
What entity are you accusing of "subverting democracy at the hands of authoritarian regimes"? Is it Facebook? Is that because they aren't fighting fake news well enough? Is it because they are still accepting political ads without reviewing each one before it is posted? Who do you want to put in charge of reviewing all posts on all platforms before they are allowed to be published? What platform is doing better at this than Facebook right now?
- rumanator 7y ago
  > Is it Facebook? Why, yes.
  - misterprime 7y ago
    Thanks for clearing that up. Interesting. Can you address the other questions as well?
- drewrv 7y ago
  > What platform is doing better at this than Facebook right now? Traditional media has always fact checked political ads. If Facebook can't do it, that's a sign to me that they're too big to responsibly sell political ads. If Facebook is so powerful that too much power would reside in the hands of their fact checkers, that's a sign they should be broken up.
  - misterprime 7y ago
    What about user posts, and not paid political ads?