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> While this bill is strongly opposed by the Internet Society, ACLU, CDT, and EFF, It's worth noting that the companies destroying democracy that this bill reg
by ocdtrekkie 5y ago
> While this bill is strongly opposed by the Internet Society, ACLU, CDT, and EFF,
It's worth noting that the companies destroying democracy that this bill regulates (Google, Facebook, etc.) are major donors to all of these organizations.
- jjulius 5y ago"See, we donate to these organizations, we're not that bad, promise!"
- wbsss4412 5y agoSeems the world isn’t all black and white. It’s not like those companies have “destroy democracy” as their mission.
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- ideashower 5y agoAnd Mozilla Corporation’s entire business model is built on Google’s financial support. Does that make Mozilla’s (or the ACLU etc.) work inherently suspect or anti-democratic?
- TameAntelope 5y agoNone of those companies are destroying democracy, that's needless hyperbole...
- ocdtrekkie 5y agoI disagree. Social media has played a huge part in the radicalization of various groups and allowed anti-democratic views to spread. The companies mentioned here have an outsized part in that because they prioritize engagement at all costs, which pushes people down rabbit holes of increasingly extreme views.
- TameAntelope 5y agoNo, the companies mentioned here are often targets of the abuse you're giving because they're very effective community builders. Your real problem is with the people using those platforms, but I guess it's harder to complain about democracy being ruined if it's literally the people participating in it who are ruining it.
- goodpoint 5y agoNever heard of Cambridge Analytica?
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