Right or left, you should be worried about big tech censorship

Re:Right or left, you should be worried about big tech censo... by Applejinx on Sunday July 18, 2021 @04:05PM (#27876172)

Because there are sociopolitical actors who can extract direct benefit from OTHER people believing misinformation to their detriment. You are omitting this motivation, and it's a significant factor, worth spending money and energy on if your motivation is to harm a population that you see as your enemy.

This assumes a global marketplace of information propagation. That's the new factor here: the actual motivation isn't all that new.

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Re:Right or left, you should be worried about big tech censo... by galaxyLogic on Sunday July 18, 2021 @10:17PM (#27878591)

I wonder how prevalent the will to "harm a population" is. I think it's more about benefitting oneself financially than trying to harm others. Politically speaking yes politicians try to harm (the popularity of) their opponents. But politicians are a very small slice of the population.

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