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I'd say it's mixed. Critical coverage of tech corps like Google's market position is sparse, but when it comes, it's like watching someone trying to put up a pi
by crocodiletears 6y ago
I'd say it's mixed. Critical coverage of tech corps like Google's market position is sparse, but when it comes, it's like watching someone trying to put up a picture frame with a sledgehammer, because it's only ever trotted out to serve as a political weapon when a publication wants to force the target of their coverage to suppress either a competing new-media outlet, or some unofficial/unendorsed' (mis)information floating around the social network.
It's always framed as, "[thing] is happening, I don't like it. [Platform] is too powerful, they're too big, and they tolerate [terrorism/racism/foreign propaganda]". The article is published, gets rewritten by other journos, [platform] has its censors wipe or suppress [thing], and publication magically forgets that [platform]'s market position was ever problematic.
This happens a lot, both to the right and to leftists with critiques of the established political order.