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They'll just play themselves into regulation eventually. Once FTC comes after them the only people to blame for it are themselves.
They are clearly not afraid of regulators anymore
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Manipulated? I just gave a 1-star review on the iOS app store and am currently pulling all my money out of my RH account, because I don't like how RH is behaving. People all thinking something is shit is not manipulation, its just collective agreement.
To play the Devil's advocate here, my personal intuition is that App reviews should be for how the apps perform, and shouldn't be used as proxy for reviewing those businesses. If the app is buggy or broken or whatever, it makes sense to give a low rating. I am not sure it makes equal sense if people suddenly realize they don't like the company who has made the app.
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But... but... I thought he was a misogynistic pervert who needs to be expunged from the face of the earth.
It's a good idea to stop and think why megacorps all uniformly support modern social justice movements. Beneficial side effects include: * Racial diversity decreases worker cohesion and therefore unionization risk. * Dozens of reasons to get canceled means that anyone who has a social following can be torn down if they pose a threat.
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> it's deplatforming, using AWS as a weapon against smaller voices. I can't see this ending well. This, so much - imagine you believe "they" stole the election, "they" got your favorite social media shut down (parler/gab/whatever), "they" blocked the buying of options, "they" then liquidated your position as the price predictably fail and you got margin called, you complained but "they" got your feedback deleted. Ouc…
So this is conflating some very different circumstances.
It's breaking trust at the society level.
It can become extremely dangerous when a large percentage of the population don't believe there's a social contract anymore.
If someone predicted 10 years ago what Big Tech did in the last years, they would have been labeled conspiracy theorist.
Where did you live 10 years ago that wasn't run by corporate greed and corruption, or were you just too young to remember it? If anything, things are better now than they were 10 years ago, and things were even worse 10 years before that. One reason that things are getting better is that more people are paying attention, which makes that fun paradox where a bunch of people who are new to this whole thing perceive the…
Examples: https://equitablegrowth.org/eight-graphs-that-tell-the-story...
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> relatively little political power He bought a newspaper. I would say he has plenty of political power.
To add to this, he owns the Washington Post, THE paper for DC
100k 1-star reviews sounds like bot spam FWIW also the link provides no proof
Why do people keep needing proof that big money runs everything.
HN has lost its mind. Everything is suddenly a conspiracy against the noble individual investor. Story after story voted up to the front page with minimal relevance. I mean, just think: were there really 100k legitimate Robinhood accounts that were blocked from an HME buy to justify a bad review? No. This is spam. It's just spam. People are angry, and this is a tool. And it's treated by Google exactly the way any oth…