There was another submission a few minutes ago in the same light. It linked to an article about how Big Tech companies are censoring doctors and decide what is accurate medical information. It was removed.
And now so has this one.
Big Tech are supposed to be the plumbers, not patricians of internet discourse
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#22Re: Big Tech are supposed to be the plumbers, not patricians of internet discourse
#23The title's been editorialized: Actual title is "When dissent is misinformation, fallacies become facts"
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#24> These companies think they’re the patricians of internet discourse. The reality is they’re the plumbing.
That was true until they started promoting and demoting content in order to drive engagement and juice their ad revenues.
Big tech is not plumbing. The minute Facebook invented the news feed they became editors and content promoters.
If they really want to just be plumbing, they can shut down their algorithms any time.
As an aside, I picked on that part of the post because the rest of it quickly pivots away from tech and reads as a self-promoting, semi-unhinged rant about covid that reads like the drunken ramblings of Q adjacent anarcho-libertarian, complete with the big hits: references to the "Davos elite", hydrochloroquine, ivermectin, Evil Dr. Fauci, etc, etc.
Which reminds me, I should probably flag this post given it's relevance to HN is glancing at best...
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#25These guys are parody-proof. "In my blog which is indexed by Google and Microsoft I reiterate the arguments from my book, available on Amazon, about how big tech is deplatforming me."
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#26lol. Flagged.
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#27That started when politicians shifted their responsibilities of governance and policy making to private entities to cover for their inefficiencies and their vote bank politics.
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#28Soon, your devices, smartphones, laptops and watches are going to have a political opinion. They are the little brothers reporting your 'thinking' to big brother to see if they will ban you or not.
Fountain pens and notebooks, fountain pens and notebooks.
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#29I remain confused as to why anyone thinks they have unlimited first amendment rights on social media. It sounds a lot like thinking one has first amendment rights at a private employer. Let's clear this up right now. TLDR: you don't unless you explicitly do. https://www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/setting-the-record-straigh... Edit: keep bringing those freethinker(tm) downvotes. It won't change the law one bit, but I guess…
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#30There was another submission a few minutes ago in the same light. It linked to an article about how Big Tech companies are censoring doctors and decide what is accurate medical information. It was removed.
Just to be clear, when you see [flagged] on a submission it means that users flagged it.