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Right, but these tech empires didn't 'seize control' just the other day when Capitol was overrun. They have been slowly ratcheting up control since years. Slowl
by Santosh83 6y ago
Right, but these tech empires didn't 'seize control' just the other day when Capitol was overrun. They have been slowly ratcheting up control since years. Slowly boiling the frog while providing an ever-increasing dazzling trinkets of technology and convenience to the general public to distract them from festering underlying issues is their tactic.
And they're succeeding all too well, and very much in cahoots with most governments, elected or not. Ultimately decentralisation of power/wealth has never succeeded in human history so far. It's just that in the last century or two, it has reached ridiculous levels of disparity, even though superficially it seems as if ordinary people are more empowered than ever.
- shripadk 6y agoExactly! And what makes it worse is that Silicon Valley is ideologically inclined to the left (and some extreme left). This is largely overlooked but is a pretty important discussion to have. Because moderator decision making is increasingly turning ideological. In India for instance, the ideological divide is quite clear. Twitter regularly bans right wing accounts while keeping left wing accounts active. Accounts like that of TrueIndology have been banned multiple times and resurrected without any proper reasoning provided. It only ended up forcing the account user (who was operating pseudonymously) to instead reveal his identity just so Twitter stopped harassing him. There should be some regulation to make the moderation team independent of the company. That is probably a good first step in breaking apart these Big Tech giants. Else we should all be ready for balkanization of the internet which is where we are headed. Whether it is a good thing or not only time will tell.