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> Spotify is NOT the open web. Of course it is not. It is bait and switch process. First you get a company create a large platform that makes it very difficu
by lmilcin 5y ago
> Spotify is NOT the open web.
Of course it is not.
It is bait and switch process.
First you get a company create a large platform that makes it very difficult to for individual people to thrive in the space around it.
Then the large company starts deciding what can or cannot be published, effectively making it impossible for some people to even be present in that space.
Now, imagine the same happens for every possible space you could use to contact other people. Videos, podcasts, have a web page searchable on search engines, tweet, instant messaging, and so on and on. You are effectively excluded because your views do not match mainstream or touch controversial or taboo subjects.
I may not agree with Rogan or other people that are being excluded but that does not necessarily give me right to decide whether they shouldn't be heard by other people.
I strongly believe this is where judicial system is supposed to represent us to follow laws to judge which instances of speech are and which are not lawful.
What we have now is effectively mob rule.
Imagine some people win and decide that talking about racism should quieted down. Is it that hard to imagine?
- rbanffy 5y ago> It is bait and switch process. It would be bait and switch if they changed their terms unilaterally. In this case, they always had the right to remove content from their platform whenever they consider it harmful to their platform.
- pm90 5y ago> Imagine some people win and decide that talking about racism should quieted down. Is it that hard to imagine? Win what exactly?
- jack_pp 5y agoWin popular approval. In the past it has been shown the popular view to not be the best, what makes you so sure the current trend is perfect and deserves no opposition? Say you are leader of your tribe and you get bit by a dog. Then you decide all dogs should be removed from your village because dogs caused harm to you. That's what the current social justice machine looks like to me and I don't think they are right.
- rbanffy 5y ago> That's what the current social justice machine looks like to me and I don't think they are right. Aren't right-wingers already forbidding schools from teaching about racism and sexual orientations in many states?
- jack_pp 5y agoI don't know honestly. The details matter.. I wouldn't agree to teach children about the infinite genders one could identify as or promote transitioning to people under 18. But have no problems teaching about standard gay acceptance. I'm not saying the far right are good either but right now you can't say they have as much an impact on the culture as the far left.
- cuteboy19 5y agoBait and Switch is the general business model of everything. Do you think next year DoorDash will be as cheap as it was when it first launched? As soon as companies get a decent market share, they start increasing prices. It is silly to complain about bait and switch for hosting content but not about prices.