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Angela Merkel blasts Twitter's decision to permanently suspend Trump's account

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Re: Angela Merkel blasts Twitter's decision to permanently suspend Trump's account

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Post by ckmdjdndndn »

Throw away.

What I find so funny is the hypocrisy of all these co’s.

During growth, no morals at all. Once at the top, suddenly the arbiter of honesty and righteousness.

Reddit - How long did they let /r/creepshots /r/jailbait and more run wild before shutting down? When it was convenient economically with investors and growth numbers? Only after a bad article was written?

Amazon - Make a list of all the businesses AWS have massive enterprise contracts with. How many do you think are with awful organizations/governments? How much other small business terrible content is hosted on their platform?

Twitter - Flip flop when politically convenient on basically everything. Moments, search, comments are all literally designed where if you click any important political conversation the most inflaming reply is at the top. Then pretend “enough is enough” now. That the discourse is not a result of themselves?

Facebook - Built an entire business around encouraging what Cambridge Analytica did then come out and pretend to care about privacy and shocked that ‘they abused out platform’.

Google - Their ad platform is basically Cambridge Analytica. What consent do people actually think they are giving? The company’s goal is to basically be one giant “thisisyourdigitallife” app.

YouTube - Algorithms that radicalize but generate profit are okay, but then be outraged by it. Kidding me...

Box.com (similar non-info based tech co’s) - I’ve seen them tweet politics constantly from a high horse of morals. Let’s see a list of all their enterprise clients? I’m sure none of these growth tech service co’s do business with awful people, organizations, governments?

It’s time to point the finger in the mirror folks.

Re: Angela Merkel blasts Twitter's decision to permanently suspend Trump's account

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Post by theBobBob »

Isn't Germany on of the countries that at least had plans on making social media companies responsible for what their users post on their sites. If I remember correctly they were even proposing massive fines if content that they deemed illegal was not removed within an hour and even holding the executives criminally responsible for the content that any of their users post? I'm not sure did they actually go that far but they were at least proposing it.

So on the one hand they are saying that companies need to strictly control what users say on their platform and if they get it wrong they are criminals, but on the other hand they shouldn't control what is said on their platform?

Re: Angela Merkel blasts Twitter's decision to permanently suspend Trump's account

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Post by mech422 »

ckmdjdndndn wrote: post #3

Throw away. What I find so funny is the hypocrisy of all these co’s. During growth, no morals at all. Once at the top, suddenly the arbiter of honesty and righteousness. Reddit - How long did they let /r/creepshots /r/jailbait and more run wild before shutting down? When it was convenient economically with investors and growth numbers? Only after a bad article was written? Amazon - Make a list of all the businesses A…

>>Once at the top, suddenly the arbiter of honesty and righteousness.

I'd say more like "covering their asses and protecting their profits"...But since when is that anything new? Companies only care about money. If we have issues with that, we should probably start by not letting them contribute to political campaigns.

Re: Angela Merkel blasts Twitter's decision to permanently suspend Trump's account

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Post by fellowniusmonk »

ckmdjdndndn wrote: post #3

Throw away. What I find so funny is the hypocrisy of all these co’s. During growth, no morals at all. Once at the top, suddenly the arbiter of honesty and righteousness. Reddit - How long did they let /r/creepshots /r/jailbait and more run wild before shutting down? When it was convenient economically with investors and growth numbers? Only after a bad article was written? Amazon - Make a list of all the businesses A…

This is the nature of risk. Non-incumbents are always willing to take more risk as they have less to lose. If there isn't a "law" formalized for this there should be, it's as hypocritical as gravity. It's practically a natural law up there with "power grows power" and "capital builds capital".
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