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What happens when it's not the government doing it? What happens when Facebook's algorithms decide to cut you off from your friends? Or when Google decides to c
by ummonk 5y ago
What happens when it's not the government doing it? What happens when Facebook's algorithms decide to cut you off from your friends? Or when Google decides to cut you off from your emails and cloud storage? When payment processors decide to kick your business off their network?
- brandonmenc 5y agoWhat happens is we make laws to outlaw this behavior.
- sneak 5y agoThe laws always have carve-outs for national security. What if the orders to deny you banking or travel or communications that come prior to a trial come from the state itself? Laws can't fix this.
- nathanaldensr 5y agoAgreed. Laws work when there is a shared ethical base between the People and the governments that represent them. Unfortunately, there isn't, if there ever was. The very idea that just because there's a law means 1) it's ethical, and 2) it'll be ethically enforced is foolish. I wish it weren't as I consider myself a highly ethical person. That doesn't mean I'll deny reality.
- ChrisMarshallNY 5y ago> Google decides to cut you off from your emails and cloud storage? I seem to remember some articles, on this very venue, recounting horror stories of being deplatformed by Google.
- throw_nbvc1234 5y ago"They're a private company they can do what they want"