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> For how long will we allow non elected superentities control our lives? ...you say, freely commenting on a site, that is freely discussing another site that
by qeternity 6y ago
> For how long will we allow non elected superentities control our lives?
...you say, freely commenting on a site, that is freely discussing another site that is openly reporting on the fact that Netflix are doing this.
The mere fact that you know that this documentary exists and that Netflix is passing on it due to geopolitical influence I think is proof that Netflix is not controlling our lives?
- newsclues 6y agoMy mom doesn’t read hacker news. She didn’t see this film on the streaming services she pays for. She didn’t see it on the tv news or hear about it on the radio. Is my mother’s life controlled and I’ve hacked my way to freedom?
- felipemnoa 6y agoTell her about it. She will tell her friends. Streisand effect...
- zarkov99 6y agoOh yes, everything is fine, because HN is not censoring some anonymous reader. Come on. Control over information might be the defining issue of this century. The danger is real and existencial and as a society we are completely unprepared to meet it.
- qeternity 6y agoMy point isn’t that HN is fine, my point is that the internet is literally filled with places to engage in free discussion. You’re worried that people won’t do that and that if they don’t, we should somehow force some Big Tech Co to indoctrinate them with an agenda that you find agreeable. Just because most people elect to use a service despite having gobs of alternatives doesn’t make that service a monopoly.
- zarkov99 6y agoForget what I find agreeable or not, that is not the point. The point is that this movie, which in all likelihood would have done quite well, was supressed from netflix for political reasons. This supression will have a huge impact on the film's reach and therefore greatly reduced it's impact. The fact that netflix is now a political agent, with the power to manipulate a giant audience for inscrutable but likely very ugly reasons should worry us all. This is a dangerous state of affairs that should not be reflexively shrugged off just because the wrong tribe complained about it first. This is coming for us all.