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No shit. It wasn't some broken, barely adopted start up that created this mess. It was the largest social platform in the world where this insanity spread for y

No shit. It wasn't some broken, barely adopted start up that created this mess. It was the largest social platform in the world where this insanity spread for years. Break up GAFA with antitrust laws.

creato 6y ago
Social media companies created a mess -> break up Apple and Amazon? What?
- meekmockmook 6y ago
  That's right. There's now absolutely zero doubt GAFA works together to determine which content gets elevated and which gets deplatformed. Choices are made in coordination as the Trump/Parler shitshow demonstrated. Not acceptable for four companies to be more powerful than the US Government.
  - cle 6y ago
    A confounding variable better explains the simultaneous action of tech companies in this situation--the confounding variable being a violent insurrection. This is just more conspiracy theory nonsense. People reacting simultaneously to an emergency doesn't mean there's a conspiracy, it's what people do when there's an emergency. If you want to make an argument of conspiracy, particularly in this case where simultaneous action is expected, then you should present actual evidence of conspiracy.
    - ralph84 6y ago
      Big tech has a track record of conspiracy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-Tech_Employee_Antitrust_Litigation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-Tech_Employee_Antitrust_L...
      - colejohnson66 6y ago
        That’s about employment poaching. Not conspiring to deplatform conservatives. Mainly because they’re not conspiring; just jumping on the band wagon after Twitter did started. That also ignores that they’re not banning conservatives, but conservatives spouting things that violate the TOS (such as saying what happened at Congress was justified because it’s “our tax dollars”).
        meekmockmook 6y ago
        They didn't ban the dictators and warlords who preach genocidal rhetoric every day. They didn't ban the constant death threats from teenagers against each other and random celebrities they felt like canceling that week. They didn't ban the people who coordinated to loot a drug store in my neighborhood even though I reported them. They didn't ban rioters in Chicago who live streamed torching businesses. They didn't ban people who were literally convicted of murder. But they sure got together fast to put up billboards in destroyed neighborhoods bragging about how they helped elevate protests. And they sure were proud of coordinating against right wing wackos in DC. TOS are never enforced consistently and GAFA is a neoliberal technocratic echo chamber that feigns social progressivism in order to coordinate anti-labor, anti-speech actions.
        dang 6y ago
        We've banned this account for using HN primarily for political battle. That's not what this site is for and it destroys what it is for, so we have to be proactive about this. If you don't want to be banned, you're welcome to email hn@ycombinator.com and give us reason to believe that you'll follow the rules in the future. They're here: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
dylan604 6y ago
Why would you leave Twitter out?

creato 6y ago

Social media companies created a mess -> break up Apple and Amazon? What?

meekmockmook 6y ago
That's right. There's now absolutely zero doubt GAFA works together to determine which content gets elevated and which gets deplatformed. Choices are made in coordination as the Trump/Parler shitshow demonstrated. Not acceptable for four companies to be more powerful than the US Government.
- cle 6y ago
  A confounding variable better explains the simultaneous action of tech companies in this situation--the confounding variable being a violent insurrection. This is just more conspiracy theory nonsense. People reacting simultaneously to an emergency doesn't mean there's a conspiracy, it's what people do when there's an emergency. If you want to make an argument of conspiracy, particularly in this case where simultaneous action is expected, then you should present actual evidence of conspiracy.
  - ralph84 6y ago
    Big tech has a track record of conspiracy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-Tech_Employee_Antitrust_Litigation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-Tech_Employee_Antitrust_L...
    - colejohnson66 6y ago
      That’s about employment poaching. Not conspiring to deplatform conservatives. Mainly because they’re not conspiring; just jumping on the band wagon after Twitter did started. That also ignores that they’re not banning conservatives, but conservatives spouting things that violate the TOS (such as saying what happened at Congress was justified because it’s “our tax dollars”).
      - meekmockmook 6y ago
        They didn't ban the dictators and warlords who preach genocidal rhetoric every day. They didn't ban the constant death threats from teenagers against each other and random celebrities they felt like canceling that week. They didn't ban the people who coordinated to loot a drug store in my neighborhood even though I reported them. They didn't ban rioters in Chicago who live streamed torching businesses. They didn't ban people who were literally convicted of murder. But they sure got together fast to put up billboards in destroyed neighborhoods bragging about how they helped elevate protests. And they sure were proud of coordinating against right wing wackos in DC. TOS are never enforced consistently and GAFA is a neoliberal technocratic echo chamber that feigns social progressivism in order to coordinate anti-labor, anti-speech actions.
        dang 6y ago
        We've banned this account for using HN primarily for political battle. That's not what this site is for and it destroys what it is for, so we have to be proactive about this. If you don't want to be banned, you're welcome to email hn@ycombinator.com and give us reason to believe that you'll follow the rules in the future. They're here: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

dylan604 6y ago

Why would you leave Twitter out?