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Nice article, I just posted the link on my Mastodon [1] account, which seems appropriate. I understand that HN people who work for Internet platform companies
by mark_l_watson 6y ago
Nice article, I just posted the link on my Mastodon [1] account, which seems appropriate.
I understand that HN people who work for Internet platform companies like Facebook and Google push back on using open protocols and open distributed systems - never blame people for doing things in their self interest.
For the rest of us, for social, tech, and political reasons, I hope that we can push back at least a little against abuse of platform companies - that is in our self interest.
[1] https://mastodon.social/web/accounts/1150176 https://mastodon.social/web/accounts/1150176
- phkahler 6y ago>> I understand that HN people who work for Internet platform companies like Facebook and Google push back on using open protocols and open distributed systems - never blame people for doing things in their self interest. Strongly disagree. Live and let live is fine so long as we dont screw each other over. In those cases they are being actively hostile to peoples freedom. When they push, push back as hard as you can. Push them down the stairs if that's what it takes to make them see their self interest is actively hostile to others. (No, I'm not advocating violence, just taking the term "pushback" to the next metaphorical level. Ugh)
- jimmygrapes 6y agoFight like hell.