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You'd think we were in China considering how many people here think that our internet overlords know better about what we should and shouldn't see. Censorship
by colordrops 6y ago
You'd think we were in China considering how many people here think that our internet overlords know better about what we should and shouldn't see. Censorship in China is mostly through private platforms as well. And regardless of that, mostly people there buy the story that a particular bit of censored information is a threat to the nation and worthy of censorship.
Why is censorship suddenly a required response to every supposed existential threat to our nation now? In fact, this trend of censorship is an existential threat to the nation.
- sib301 6y agoHe made no claims about any entity knowing better than any other entity. Also, if you think a “private” company in China is even remotely the same as a private company in America you’re in for a surprise.
- colordrops 6y agoI'm in for no such surprise. I worked at (and also ran) some of these companies in China and the business charters, org charts, and operations were not much different from US companies. And private companies on both sides of the Pacific can be tools of the government. Google is an arm of the State Department [1] and Facebook and other SV companies have ties to the CIA [2]. [1] https://www.newsweek.com/assange-google-not-what-it-seems-279447 https://www.newsweek.com/assange-google-not-what-it-seems-27... [2] https://theintercept.com/2016/04/14/in-undisclosed-cia-investments-social-media-mining-looms-large/ https://theintercept.com/2016/04/14/in-undisclosed-cia-inves...