Re:Amazon, Apple and Google Cut Off Parler
by bavell on Saturday January 09, 2021 @08:51PM
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I'm sure Twitter loves to be seen as a small indie platform because then they can shift the blame elsewhere when in fact they have far more influence than is reasonable for a healthy democratic society.
I agree with your point about Fox et al.
Re:Amazon, Apple and Google Cut Off Parler
by throwawaysea on Saturday January 09, 2021 @08:38PM
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> Twitter is practically a small indie platform
Just to be clear, Twitter has over 320M users. That's more users than the population of all but 3 nations: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_and_dependen...
They are the massive multinational corporation controlling media, and a small number of Silicon Valley progressives should not be trusted with that degree of cultural and political influence and power over the world.
Re:Amazon, Apple and Google Cut Off Parler
by trident5000 on Saturday January 09, 2021 @09:03PM
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Its not even a corporation its literally 3 people ultimately as Elon Musk pointed out just today.
I'd be willing to bet almost anything that the latter have been far more demonstrably toxic than all but the darkest corners of the Internet. Because they have a huge captive audience and have been operating as toxic bad faith actors lying and pandering to the prejudices of low information audiences for decades now.
We don't just need a conversation about Twitter, or even about Google. Or Apple.
We also need a conversation about Fox and the rest, and the fact that a tiny handful of corporations control TV content, movies, music, book publishing, print of other kinds, and so on.
In the bigger picture, Twitter is practically a small indie platform.