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A comment on Don't Be Evil: Utopias, Frontiers, and Brogrammers.

Re:Don't Be Evil: Utopias, Frontiers, and Brogrammers by supreme_sublime on Thursday January 04, 2018 @12:03PM (#16071923)
>It seems that tech companies also prefer the deregulatory approach when it comes to what content to allow on their platforms. Their default is laissez-faire—to not interfere with what people can post.

This is quickly changing for the worse. Twitter verification has become a badge of approval. Facebook and Twitter try to enforce rules beyond what is legal and illegal and do so wildly inconsistently. I see a lot of it happening with "right-leaning" people, but I have also seen complaints with "left-leaning" people as well.

They need to get back to this instead of trying so hard to police what is allowed to be said.

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Re:Don't Be Evil: Utopias, Frontiers, and Brogrammers by RangerScience on Thursday January 04, 2018 @01:39PM (#16072827)
> trying so hard to police what is allowed to be said.

Eh. They feel responsible for people doing bad things with what they've made. Closest simplified analogy I'm coming up with is: Imagine you run a gigantic, crowded open-mic, and someone gets up and starts shouting "Fire!" when there isn't one. You would probably want to prevent that, cuz it's breaking this thing you made.

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