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All this hand-wringing over a troll site losing its DDoS protection, and meanwhile Apple and Google blow away people's entire livelihoods at random and everyone
by gary_0 4y ago
All this hand-wringing over a troll site losing its DDoS protection, and meanwhile Apple and Google blow away people's entire livelihoods at random and everyone hardly even blinks.
- lapcat 4y ago> everyone hardly even blinks The story is on the front page of Hacker News and also getting spread on Twitter.
- gary_0 4y agoAnd a similar story will be on the front page next month, too. Apple and Google will shrug it off. Dog bites man.
- lapcat 4y ago> Apple and Google will shrug it off. Yes, because they are a powerful duopoly. Also why world governments are considering and/or passing antitrust regulations. Mobilizing against $2 trillion corporations is a years long struggle, and those corporations fight back with all of their resources. People do care, but there's a massive power imbalance.
- pessimizer 4y ago> Also why world governments are considering and/or passing antitrust regulations. They're a powerful duopoly because of their wealth and deep connections to world governments.
- OrangeMonkey 4y agoThe hand-wringing is because folks were smiling and winking at each other while trying to convince a fire department to stop protecting a house, all while holding cans of gas and matches. Its horrible for Apple/Google to have this much power - I agree 100%. I don't know a solution. Its likely this was an algorithm gone crazy and not malicious. The removal of ddos protection all the while smiling cause you know what will happen right after it gets removed is 100% malicious. And we, the tech community, appear completely ok with it. You have to admit it feels hypocritic.
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