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> a tyrant ruling over a techno-feudalistic society It's an email app. There are many other options.
by cheriot 4y ago
> a tyrant ruling over a techno-feudalistic society
It's an email app. There are many other options.
- throw10920 4y agoGoogle is, uh, not just email. https://about.google/products/ https://about.google/products/
- cheriot 4y agoThe topic of the post was email. Even expanding to every other product, which ones are you forced to use? Just pick another one. Calling this feudalism is a bit much.
- nicce 4y agoEmail was just an example. Topic is about account.
- commonalitydev 4y agoIf I understood his post and overall point correctly, he doesn’t think that it’s that second possibility — that Google is a benevolent tyrant, essentially — but that that’s the only other explanation, which is bad. (I agree that the language he used was a bit much, but I think he was using exaggeration as a legitimate literary device to make his point, not in an attempt to actually mischaracterize that scenario.) He think it’s the first possibility — that Google is doing it for reasons other than the users’ best interests (i.e. “nefarious purposes”) — which is even worse.