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Either way, you’re not “free”. At least with state censorship, there’s a formal hierarchy of authority. There’s the law, and some semblance of duty to the publ
by programmarchy 6y ago
Either way, you’re not “free”.
At least with state censorship, there’s a formal hierarchy of authority. There’s the law, and some semblance of duty to the public.
With corporate censorship, it’s ethereal, anarchic, and less accountable. The rules are opaque, the deciders are unknown, and the only duty is maximizing shareholder profit.
As a serf, I’d be happier knowing who to blame.
- runawaybottle 6y agoI believe once upon a time we used to just call this ‘blaming the man’. Edit: Anyway, I’ll add to your point. As a company, Google has no issue censoring it’s product in China as opposed to other countries. It sounds almost trite to bring up, but Google censors the Tiananmen Square massacre for the CCP. With this in mind, what sincere values does Google hold on censorship? So ya, you’re right, corporate accountability on censorship is basically non existent (and you can trace it back to the fact that they probably don’t have values to even hold accountable).
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