BigTech is now more powerful than world leaders and government. They proved that this week. This is a massive security threat to the entire world – literally BigTech has signed their own death warrant. BigTech will be broken up and heavily regulated after this. No government can risk being shut down by BigTech. Think about this for a bit.
Free speech is normally considered part of “Civil rights”, including speech that we do not like. “Civil rights groups” are demanding that Youtube engage in censorship, and threatening to attack their advertisers if Youtube does not comply. So we have “civil rights groups” threatening to use extortion to suppress speech of those they do not like. Interesting times.
When an organization suffers an embarrassing fiasco of their own making, they often respond with the silly “This is not who we are” claim, just after they’ve demonstrated that this is indeed who they are. This is known as the “Begging the question fallacy”.
Today, a PBS legal counsel was caught advocating for fire bombing the White House and sending children of Trump supporters to re-education camps. PBS has apparently fired the counsel, and made the usual “This is not who we are”, just after their own counsel demonstrated that this might be who they are… begging the question once again.
Twitter is secretly announcing it has become a satire site, a parody of Twitter itself 🙂
Facebook, whose platform has fostered a world of conflict and outrage- has told employees to hide their affiliation with Facebook. For safety reasons.