2 ms·
So they might say "we don't want $X type of content on our platform, as it would negatively affect our product identity". But that's in fact a moral judgement!
by PontifexMinimus 5y ago
So they might say "we don't want $X type of content on our platform, as it would negatively affect our product identity".
But that's in fact a moral judgement! It's saying "some people think $X is bad, and we agree with them (or at least choose to pretend to so as not to soil our image)".
- SyzygistSix 5y agoI would disagree that it is a judgement based on morality. It is a judgement made by the logic of corporations, which are machines made up of people that take on a life of their own. While the actions of organizations like this have moral consequences, and the people that are part of it have their own morals, the machinery itself does not use morality to make decisions, except in hindsight as justification. The moral consequences may be beneficial or harmful; it is all the same to a profit machine that acts in its own interests, which transcend the people who it is made of in the form of workers and users.
- PontifexMinimus 5y agoSaying that corporations should act to maximise their profits is in fact also a moral judgement.
- SyzygistSix 5y agoI never put a value judgement like should on it. It just seems to me to be the dynamic that happens with organizations. They take on a life of their own, independent of the people they are composed of.