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As I said in the Apple-Parler thread: Massive Big Tech conglomerates must be busted through antitrust enforcement and Section 230 must be updated to ban predat
by meekmockmook 6y ago
As I said in the Apple-Parler thread:
Massive Big Tech conglomerates must be busted through antitrust enforcement and Section 230 must be updated to ban predatory algorithms which have inflamed 7 years of sectarian chaos and violence.
It's not a free speech issue: It's about Too Big To Fail. They have too much power, beyond that of even the world's largest governments. This cannot stand.
- bmitc 6y agoIt’s a little surprising to me that of all things, i.e. the banning of a racist, sexist, traitor, and inducer of violence on social media, is what causes Hacker News to say big tech needs to be busted, and not the multiple violations and manipulations they themselves have been a part of. I do agree that many corporations are too powerful. This whole situation is the result of a century of corporatism in America, corporations using their influence and (domestic) evangelical religious extremists to further their capitalist goals. It’s why "under God" is in the Pledge of Allegiance, and it’s how the modern day Republicans came to be. I encourage anyone to watch Adam Curtis’ documentaries. He nails it on the head of how we got here.
- idoh 6y agoHow could you break up Twitter, what's your plan?
- cwkoss 6y agoHalf joking, but force them to federate their content to P2P networks like Mastodon?
- meekmockmook 6y agoWhy joke? Thats a viable way to do it. No social network shoild be so large that massive global events can be shaped by it's executives.
- undersuit 6y agoWhat's to stop them from confederating afterwards?
- dionian 6y agoThey'll start with whoever they hate most and work their way on down. This is crazy.
- avalys 6y agoIn what sense is Twitter a "Massive Big Tech conglomerate"? They're merely a successful platform.
- cwkoss 6y agoWhat percentage of modern "news" articles use tweets as the primary source of research? I'd guess the average "news" article today includes at least 1 tweet. It's dumb, but Twitter has become where journalism happens.