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Me neither. This month is crazy with very visible examples of blatant, unethical overreach of prominent companies. This thing absolutely adds up in people's consciousness. Sure, it decays over time, but right now, it adds up faster.
Someone could become US president riding this public sentiment. Let's see if it decays in 4 years...
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Someone could become US president riding this public sentiment. Let's see if it decays in 4 years...
If you through Trump was bad, just wait until a competent version shows up
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This reminds me of the "review bombing" debacles that have plagued Steam over recent years. Valve implemented a system to detect these patterns and discard the ratings. Valve had no particular stake in the games being "bombed", but they do have a stake in the trust people have in their platform. People want to know if a game is truly good or bad and not have to wonder if it was the victim of some kind of vendetta. At…
There is a huge difference. Review bombs are by people who usually have not played the game/app but post negative reviews on mass because of something usually unrelated to the game itself. In the case of Robinhood they are written by people upset that they have been monetarily screwed by the app. There were millions of people in WSB, 100,000 negitive reviews is only a fraction of that.
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Last year Elizabeth Warren called for Facebook to be split up. Facebook censored it. So things may change suddenly, but in one of two directions: 1. big tech being split up 2. big tech exercising the control they have over politics, by controlling speech, to prevent being split up The second option would of course be the final end of democracy in America.
We have democracy in America?
Honest question: why does Google care here? They don't really have a stake in the GME situation, with no short or long positions (I'm assuming). They aren't that connected to Wall Street companies. Why protect Robinhood at all?
Google doesn't want fake reviews on the play store. Its as simple as that. Google is removing these probably because they look like fake reviews, and don't care enough to spend time and resources investigating it.
If someone predicted 10 years ago what Big Tech did in the last years, they would have been labeled conspiracy theorist.
If someone predicted 10 years ago what Big Tech did in the last years, they would have been labeled conspiracy theorist.
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High ratings for apps in the store might help convince users that the store is worth using. Or, even better, high ratings for apps from large corporations encourage them to support the continuation of your store's monopoly power.
But that's why there's no real need for manipulation. App store what highly rated apps and app makers want their apps to be highly rated so they use more or less dark patterns and incentives to incite users to leave good reviews. There's a massive selection bias at play which tends to naturally inflate review scores without any explicit fudging.
Why do people keep needing proof that big money runs everything.
It's more complicated than that. Jeff Bezos has a lot of money and relatively little political power. You can't just be rich; you also have to be in the right social groups. If money truly equaled political power, we'd look more like Hong Kong pre-1997 (and arguably pre-2020).