YouTube Bends the Knee
YouTube Bends the Knee
This article discusses how major tech companies like YouTube, Meta, and X are settling lawsuits with Donald Trump over account suspensions, effectively bowing to political pressure. It highlights the financial settlements and the shift towards looser content moderation policies, arguing that these actions represent corporate cowardice and a capitulation to the "Trump era" ideology, where platforms prioritize profit and political expediency over responsible governance and content moderation.
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and we have seen a lot more knee bending since then.
the open corruption has definitely shows the slippery slope of concentrated power will rear its ugly head when more money is on the line.
having to rely on oligopolies to maintain community standards enables them to decouple their decisions from the community needs itself. they aren't just too big too fail, they are too difficult to fail.
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