Hatsune_Candy t1_j0j7els wrote on December 17, 2022 at 1:18 AM

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Sadly, corporations don't care about the impact they have on society, good or bad, as long as it makes them loads of money it's all the same to them.

gwdope t1_j0j9gwt wrote on December 17, 2022 at 1:35 AM

That’s absolutely true and actually not really a problem, the problem comes when those corporations convince a portion of the population that their own freedoms rely on the corporations being able to pursue their profit aims unconstrained by any oversight or regulation by the democratically elected government.

Hatsune_Candy t1_j0jziwj wrote on December 17, 2022 at 5:32 AM

That is definitely a problem, but I also wouldn't consider it the problem. The fact is there are a lot of problems with corporations, not one more important than the other. But, it comes to talking about social media giants in particular, I would like to point out, isn't a little absurd that we allow them to literally control how information spreads over the web? They essentially have an oligopoly over how we communicate over the web.