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I feel as though they kind of ignore "tech companies" in China, Russia, India, Iran, etc., who probably do worse things regarding human rights. If nothing else
by mc32 1y ago
I feel as though they kind of ignore "tech companies" in China, Russia, India, Iran, etc., who probably do worse things regarding human rights. If nothing else they should state that at the outset given they speak of "the global majority" where the technology companies they mention have either none or limited penetration.
- surgical_fire 1y agoThe title indicates the article is specifically about big tech companies. There are none of those from China, Russia, China, Iran. I presume technology companies from those countries are used in support to authoritarian governments, but that sounds like a separate issue of how "big tech" as we understand it operate.
- mc32 1y agoThere are big technology companies in those countries. They may not have the reach with the exception of TikTok which has reach into the west. I take issue because they bring up big tech influence into geographies outside “the western world” but big tech has little penetration there and they should pint that out.
- surgical_fire 1y agoWhen I read "Big Tech" with this casing, I think of companies such as MS, Meta, Google, Amazon, etc. Maybe I do have a faulty understanding of the term? Perhaps TikTok is the closest thing to that outside of that group.
- cutemonster 1y agoI find it lacking that the report doesn't mention TikTok or X / Twitter. TikTok has been used for manipulating voters in Europe.