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They should have known that if they built a giant centralized platform, the government would eventually come knocking.
by sneak 2y ago
They should have known that if they built a giant centralized platform, the government would eventually come knocking.
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- dredmorbius 2y agos/government/governments/ Also corporations, political parties, propagandists, hucksters, and others. Pathogens co-evolve with their hosts.
- sneak 2y agoThere’s only one government that Facebook/Meta really has to obey, and that’s the one that can show up at Zucc’s houses with the CIA. The other ones are mostly optional.
- dredmorbius 2y agoLocalised bans are possible. Those threaten not only present userbase and revenue, but open up niches for alternatives favoured by that logal regime to become established. Weibo would be a prime example of that last dynamic, in China.