Re:Amazon, Apple and Google Cut Off Parler
by Someone on Sunday January 10, 2021 @04:55AM
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For me, closing down “bad enough” actors is a good thing, but the big question is “Who’s going to decide who are those, and what’s ‘bad enough’?”.
I don’t think the answer to that should be “a few people at large companies that are, at best, kept at bay by rich people buying or selling the company’s shares” (their customers have too little choice to exert much pressure. I also don’t see protests at BigCo’s headquarters or angry mobs storming BigCo HQ to force them to change course (other ways to exert pressure), but maybe I’m not looking far enough into the future)
These large companies act as judge, jury and executioner, and don’t allow appeals.
I don’t think the answer to that should be “a few people at large companies that are, at best, kept at bay by rich people buying or selling the company’s shares” (their customers have too little choice to exert much pressure. I also don’t see protests at BigCo’s headquarters or angry mobs storming BigCo HQ to force them to change course (other ways to exert pressure), but maybe I’m not looking far enough into the future)
These large companies act as judge, jury and executioner, and don’t allow appeals.