Re:Study finds Reddit’s ban of its most toxic subreddits wor...
by luckylion on Sunday April 28, 2019 @08:58AM
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> Yes, but "there's always somewhere" may stop being true if we enter that dystopia.
That's true. That "somewhere" might become TOR because everything else is well regulated. In the end, you can technically also always meet like minded people in your basement to do whatever the government doesn't want you to do in public, so there's always "somewhere" ;)
Re:Study finds Reddit’s ban of its most toxic subreddits wor...
by rmtgk on Sunday April 28, 2019 @09:22AM
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>Yes, but "there's always somewhere" may stop being true if we enter that dystopia.
We're already there and we didn't need to enter a dystopia. All big platforms (Google's YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, you name it) follow the same exact lines on politics and speech.
(btw, funny that the English UK dictionary from Chrome doesn't include the word dystopia ;P)
Competition for fringe discussion exists today so our society is healthy (thank goodness). If a true monopoly is allowed to form in these platforms, we will have a big problem. Thankfully we have anti-compete laws. Unfortunately it feels like we are flirting with monopolies when vertically integrated companies like Apple and Google have a very large market share (from Android to YouTube, as you mention).
My favourite Sci Fi that deals with that dystopian future is a little-known show called Continuum. The oligarchy begins when governments go bankrupt and get bailed out by corporations in exchange for political power in the form of a "corporate congress". Fantastic show. Still sticks with me.