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[...] tech companies are under fire for creating problems instead of solving them. At the top of the list is Russian interference in last year's presidential election. Social media might have originally promised liberation, but it proved an even more useful tool for stoking anger. The manipulation was so efficient and so lacking in transparency that the companies themselves barely noticed it was happening.
The election is far from the only area of concern. Tech companies have accrued a tremendous amount of power and influence. Amazon determines how people shop, Google how they acquire knowledge, Facebook how they communicate. All of them are making decisions about who gets a digital megaphone and who should be unplugged from the web.
Their amount of concentrated authority resembles the divine right of kings, and is sparking a backlash that is still gathering force.
Is it that the tech companies are creating problems for society as a whole, or merely disrupting the status quo for the old Powers-That-Be?
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Sunday October 15 2017, @11:05AM (1 child)
Yeah, that's some quality mental gymnastics to take actual censorship that is actually happening and say I'm trying to censor them for calling them out on it. What color is the sky in your world? Nevermind, it's whatever color they tell you it is, of course.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 16 2017, @05:25PM
We have always been at war with Eastasia!