2 ms·
The “x is impossible at google scale” (where x usually means customer support but in this case information correctness) argument falls flat to me. If x is impos
by dkersten 6y ago
The “x is impossible at google scale” (where x usually means customer support but in this case information correctness) argument falls flat to me. If x is impossible at their scale, then their scale needs to be cut back. Companies shouldn’t be allowed to be so large and all-encompassing and monopolistic that they negatively impact society because x is impossible at that scale.
- acituan 6y agoYou’re right. Yet currently there is one major normativity in action and that is the normativity of the market. Market rewwards economies of scale and monopolies more than anything else. Unfortunately there is no working institution left to bring in the normativity of societal good for balance. One might hope for state to make a move, but big tech pays the most lobbying money currently, so I wouldn’t hold my breath.
- dkersten 6y ago> so I wouldn’t hold my breath Of course. I agree that market pressure is pushing companies that way and there's little that can stop it now. But that still doesn't make the excuse a good one, certainly not for us, the people.