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The idea that corporations are kowtowing to a polticians individual personal wishes - rather than operating under a framework of laws and regulations based on p
by zmmmmm 6y ago
The idea that corporations are kowtowing to a polticians individual personal wishes - rather than operating under a framework of laws and regulations based on principles and administered fairly to all - should be offensive to every single American, regardless of who the players are or their country of origin.
- bdcravens 6y agoPerhaps they are waiting to allow government policy to create a better negotiating position.
- Seasonwreckage 6y agoEven more pronounced is the silence of life long legislators who were always opposed to this kind of strong man government all along. Ps: I side with Trump on this one. Just hate the fact that no Republican opposes him anymore.
- squarefoot 6y ago> Just hate the fact that no Republican opposes him anymore. Many do, few have the guts to admit it publicly. Politics is still a business after all. As an example, The Lincoln Project is made by past and current republicans strongly opposing Trump. https://lincolnproject.us/ https://lincolnproject.us/
- bilbo0s 6y agoIt's been my observation that political parties believe in whatever is convenient for them to believe in at any given time. So we shouldn't necessarily be surprised by lack of GOP opposition. In fairness, I guess people are like that as well. Maybe that sort of duplicity is simply endemic to being human?
- scarface74 6y agoWell, This is what HN posters want. As evidence by the numerous downvotes I get about not wanting the government involvement in tech. Even after the dog and pony show with the CEO’s last week where one representative grilled Zuckerberg about Twitter’s treatment of Don Jr.
- kanox 6y agoThe worst political development over the last decade is the very wide embracing of corporate censorship. It is now widely accepted that media platforms have an explicit duty to control public opinion. In this context any large foreign media outlet becomes a threat.
- scarface74 6y agoI keep hearing this mostly from the conservative side when Trump got elected mostly by bypassing traditional media and using Twitter and social media. What do you propose? More government involvement to tell tech what they can do on their own platform? Isn’t it kind of hypocritical that the anti regulation party wants regulation when it suits them?
- saagarjha 6y agoCorporate censorship bites both ways; see Apple's reluctance to approve HKmap.live for its platform.
- scarface74 6y agoWhat exactly does that have to do with US policies?
- saagarjha 6y agoNothing, that's the point. Censorship is not a "US conservative complaint", it's a problem independent of nationalities or political parties.
- JeremyNT 6y agoSocial media platforms are tools of information warfare and propaganda. This is what advertising is to begin with, and outside of that obvious function most of these platforms are further optimized to drive engagement by presenting misinformation. The idea of politicians discriminating against the ones they don't like is repugnant, but these platforms already are already used to control public opinion in ways that are against the public interest, and it's certainly reasonable to suspect that a platform such as TikTok (which is controlled by a competing empire) might be used to that empire's advantage.
- threeseed 6y agoBut it is under a framework of laws and regulations. All governments, including the US, have the legal right to ban companies and block mergers/acquisitions on national security grounds. Each company has different issues hence why the idea of it not being discretionary doesn't make sense.
- bromuro 6y agoOn the other side, politicians have always obeyed to corporations desires.