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The difference is companies used to decide what piece of content to nuke now it's the government doing it which is a big no-no.
by duringmath 3y ago
The difference is companies used to decide what piece of content to nuke now it's the government doing it which is a big no-no.
- beebeepka 3y ago[flagged]
- malermeister 3y agoSo instead of a private, unaccountable censor you now have a democratically elected one? How is that worse?
- duringmath 3y agoGovernment can put you in jail this is not a slope we want to grease. Private "censorship" is localized and fairly harmless.
- malermeister 3y ago> Private "censorship" is localized and fairly harmless. That, again, is a bold claim with nothing to back it up. Here's an example of private censorship with a political motivation: https://www.businessinsider.com/twitter-leaked-internal-message-suggests-musk-ordered-leftwing-account-freeze-2023-1 https://www.businessinsider.com/twitter-leaked-internal-mess... Nobody elected Musk, and yet he just autocratically controls a major medium of communication now, with no democratic control mechanisms in place. Better not upset the owning class or you, too, will be silenced!
- duringmath 3y agoIs this supposed to be a counter example? These actions are localized to twitter and afaik no one has gone to prison for it. Like it or not (and I don't) Twitter is Musk's property, it's his 44B toy and he can break it if he wants.
- thedrbrian 3y agothey aren't elected
- malermeister 3y agoWhat do you mean?
- extraduder_ire 3y agoI think they mean whoever is put into these companies to ensure compliance is just hired for the role, and isn't from some set of directly elected people. This distinction between "elected", "appointed", etc.. people comes up pretty often in criticism of the EU and its institutions.
- malermeister 3y agoBy that standard, the president of the US isn't elected either.
- extraduder_ire 3y agoThis is different still. It's more like how the US president's cabinet is unelected. I was referring mainly to the European Commission, and a common criticism I hear about it. The electoral collage does follow a process that is election, even if there's one (or more) layer of abstraction between that and initial ballots.
- 9dev 3y agoNot that I share GPs opinion, but the US president really isn’t elected by the people. The winner takes it all is a strategy suitable for the 1700‘s, but not today. It may be what it is, but it certainly isn’t democratic.
- beebeepka 3y ago[flagged]