Re:Contra Chrome: How Google's browser became a threat to pr...
by pitkali on Monday March 10, 2025 @06:47AM
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Rampant misinformation certainly makes it harder to figure things out, but I disagree that it somehow removes people's right to vote for what's best for them or making an educated vote. I don't find that kind of rhetoric helpful.
Politics is complicated, and most people are neither interested nor qualified to determine what's "best." Even the experts often do not know or agree on how to "fix" things that are broken, so how should the voters? Most just want to be able to afford the groceries.
Re:Contra Chrome: How Google's browser became a threat to pr...
by otabdeveloper4 on Monday March 10, 2025 @06:02AM
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I agree, in the current climate a normal person could never be expected to make the correct choice on what their best interests are. To safeguard democracy we really need to protect the less advantaged here.
when company sell people's profile and allow political parties to target them with personalized advertisement,
When journalists are allowed to be completely biased that no one trust them anymore,
When fake news are allowed to be spread across social networks without any obstacle,
You remove people's right to make an educated vote on who is best going to represent their interest.
So yeah chrome, Google and other data harvester are part of the problem with some social network and the unregulation of such an important democracy tool that is journalism.