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Google’s customers want to serve you ads so they could buy your products. There’s nothing that they could do to you that is remotely on the scale of what Data C
by aripickar 6y ago
Google’s customers want to serve you ads so they could buy your products. There’s nothing that they could do to you that is remotely on the scale of what Data Collection in China is capable of doing to you.
- skummetmaelk 6y agoBeing able to swing public sentiment by showing the right people the right set of "ads" carries a lot of power.
- cromwellian 6y agoHow about being able to swing public sentiment by a) funding a massive 50 cent army b) censoring any information the state does not want you to see c) jailing anyone who say the wrong thing with their data d) controlling pretty much your entire life through the social credit system You guys are drawing lots of false equivalences. Streamers in China have been 'disappeared' for weeks for offenses as harmless as singing the national anthem badly, or saying nice things about Taiwan. When tech companies start doing this, maybe we'll have an equivalence: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbTXb6bEMfI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbTXb6bEMfI
- skummetmaelk 6y agoThis is not about China. This is about you saying Google having this power is preferable to any government because they are more responsible or whatever. That is a false choice. The government will always have the power. In a democracy it must be held accountable for that power by its citizens.
- fennecfoxen 6y agoBeing able to censor public sentiment does too, especially when you can even get others to censor public sentiment on foreign soil for you. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blitzchung_controversy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blitzchung_controversy