Re:Right or left, you should be worried about big tech censo...
by tshaddox on Sunday July 18, 2021 @06:10PM
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Or that a few algorithms created by a few companies does not constitute anything remotely resembling a marketplace.
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Re:Right or left, you should be worried about big tech censo...
by verdverm on Sunday July 18, 2021 @07:18PM
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People can choose to get their information from places other than the large platforms. To me, the "marketplace" is the internet as a whole. If people choose to stay on the platform, is it not similar to choosing CNN and not ever looking at Fox? In the end, people have many options but choose to limit which options they engage with
Re:Right or left, you should be worried about big tech censo...
by tekknik on Sunday July 18, 2021 @10:01PM
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There’s a section in the EFF on why not being on the large networks is a detriment.
Re:Right or left, you should be worried about big tech censo...
by Natsu on Sunday July 18, 2021 @06:28PM
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The usual idea of a marketplace is preserving people's freedom to go to alternatives. Yes, sometimes that freedom has to be preserved via intervention to preserve choices (e.g. antitrust laws), but it's always weird to me to see the critique used as a reason for less freedom rather than more.