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Wonderful. So when, as an individual, I watch a company: - evading most taxes, - offering 0 support to users, - breaking the user experience to force users t
by ahmedalsudani 6y ago
Wonderful. So when, as an individual, I watch a company:
- evading most taxes,
- offering 0 support to users,
- breaking the user experience to force users through their “app funnel,”
- shutting down independent developers without recourse,
- bullying any small fish in their path,
- conspiring to depress labour salaries, and
- shirking any societal or moral obligations,
...that’s just business.
But then when, having observed their psychopathic behaviour, I decide that I don’t want to be part of funding this evil entity, now I’m holding a double standard by accessing the content this monopoly has become the sole gatekeeper for.
Give me a break.
(Leaving untouched the fact that their business model revolves around collecting as much private information as possible.)
- yesplorer 6y agoYou're okay with enjoying free food from an armed robber as long as you're not the one he's robbing even though you know the food is funded with proceeds of crime.
- Xeanort 6y agoAs long as it's the only place where I can have food, yes.
- phone8675309 6y agoYou're strawmanning ahmedalsudani's argument. They are not saying that Google is an armed robber, nor is using YouTube anywhere near as essential to survival as food, so this is a bad analogy.
- yesplorer 6y agoThey're effectively saying Google is an unethical company and yet they continue to use the platform of this unethical company, a platform whose existence is solely dependent on the unethical practices of Google (as it has been mentioned over and over that Youtube is running at a loss).
- phone8675309 6y agoyesplorer is using the time honored "won't somebody think of the corporations?!" deflection.
- yesplorer 6y agoi don't care about Google. All I'm saying is if you hate the organization, don't be a parasite and us their platform. It's just about principle.