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Instead of pushing back on all Big Tech, I am seeing endless bickering about what dystopian company to follow. Current state: Apple and Google are the 'good' g
by systemvoltage 5y ago
Instead of pushing back on all Big Tech, I am seeing endless bickering about what dystopian company to follow.
Current state:
Apple and Google are the 'good' guys. Facebook and Microsoft are the 'bad' guys. Twitter is in the background at the moment. Tiktok is HN's absolute lovely darling. No one cares that its Chinese.
This keeps changing like a drunk game of russian roulette, mixed with some partisan politics, anti-billionairism, etc.
If it were year 2005, we would all be singing in unison to take down Oracle, IBM and Microsoft - have a startup spirit of optimism. I haven't seen that lately on HN.
- tqi 5y agoThat's because for many there is no consistent principle underlying their criticisms, they start with a list of companies they like/dislike or view as with/against them and work backwards.
- mrkramer 5y agoThey are all bad if people trade their personal/private information for "free" use of those services. The key part is let people know they are trading their personal data in exchange for "free" access to whatever free of charge service these companies offer.
- duud 5y agoI am fairly confident that the average user understands that their YouTube, FB, Insta etc usage is funded by targeted ads and doesn't really care. Sure they might not understand the full extent of the targeting but let them learn about factory farming, forced labour, the prison/military industrial complex and many other evils first. Maybe with information campaigns run via targeted ads :)