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When I said big tech I meant software, not primarily hardware companies. ASML is also not likely to be harvesting our data.
by lovich 6mo ago
When I said big tech I meant software, not primarily hardware companies. ASML is also not likely to be harvesting our data.
- bell-cot 6mo agoBeyond the easy quip, my point was that "big tech" has taken on a far-too-narrow meaning. I'd bet you didn't really mean "software" either - you were, in effect, referring to the whole amoral (at best) ecosystem of companies which run social media and related web sites and data infrastructure, making their money through addiction, exploitation, and extraction. Perhaps Cory Doctorow will come up with a better term?
- lovich 6mo agoNo, I meant companies that have a lot of money and are primarily software. Discord for example is a company that isnt as big as a faang but one of the companies I would have included in "big tech", The software companies, for whatever reason, have been largely bad actors when it comes to dealing with users data