Re:Social media app Parler buys cloud-services provider
by tharne on Friday September 16, 2022 @09:38AM
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> You don’t need to be into alt-righters to to know that freedom can only exist if we all have it.
More people need to understand this point.
Folks don't realize that we're easily corrupted by power and that sooner or later it will be abused.
It's not hard, for example, to imagine a future where Amazon and Google start labeling unions as extremist organizations and removing them from internet. That might sound far-fetched, but it would only take a handful of incidents of bad behavior by union members or organizations for tech companies to say, "Look, these organizations are inciting violence in their members."
More people need to understand this point.
Folks don't realize that we're easily corrupted by power and that sooner or later it will be abused.
It's not hard, for example, to imagine a future where Amazon and Google start labeling unions as extremist organizations and removing them from internet. That might sound far-fetched, but it would only take a handful of incidents of bad behavior by union members or organizations for tech companies to say, "Look, these organizations are inciting violence in their members."