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Re:Why are Big Tech companies a threat to human rights? by surgical_fire on Monday October 13, 2025 @06:15AM (#45566719)
The title indicates the article is specifically about big tech companies.

There are none of those from China, Russia, China, Iran.

I presume technology companies from those countries are used in support to authoritarian governments, but that sounds like a separate issue of how "big tech" as we understand it operate.

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Re:Why are Big Tech companies a threat to human rights? by mc32 on Monday October 13, 2025 @08:31AM (#45567626)
There are big technology companies in those countries. They may not have the reach with the exception of TikTok which has reach into the west.

I take issue because they bring up big tech influence into geographies outside “the western world” but big tech has little penetration there and they should pint that out.

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Re:Why are Big Tech companies a threat to human rights? by surgical_fire on Monday October 13, 2025 @11:43AM (#45569623)
When I read "Big Tech" with this casing, I think of companies such as MS, Meta, Google, Amazon, etc. Maybe I do have a faulty understanding of the term?

Perhaps TikTok is the closest thing to that outside of that group.

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