Originally Posted by Vertex
We all know Facebook is fishy as hell when it comes to information and privacy. And its a known fact that they sell your data and promote fake news encouraged by the algorithm. I go against big tech corporations. They have a monopoly in terms of competition and have stifled competition for a very long time. They have been silencing the opposing opinion by labelling it as "hate speech" and can even affect people irl. There have been instances in the us where people have lost their jobs for saying a different opinion.
how are they silencing opinions?
in my view, everybody gets an isolated slice of opinions perfectly catered to them, which isn't good, but it's not silencing any opinion. it's just amplifying them too much to a specific subset of users.
could you give an example of "hate speech" that somebody was fired for?
i don't think we should be firing people for their opinions in general, but if it's blatantly racist/sexist/bigoted i see no problems.
Originally Posted by Vertex
Even these big tech companies are being influenced by the ccp, hence why talking about ccp in a negative light wont end well for you or anyone who agrees with you.
Chinese apps are way worse.
If you do something that's a punishable offence in china, you can be affected by it. Criticising china's way of censoring free speech will affect you. Criticising china on how china handled the covid situation horribly will affect you. Chinese apps aren't trustworthy and never will be more than American apps
as far as i know you can still shit on china if you're not a public figure/event.
i think recently there was some vague law that allowed china to prosecute anyone in the world, but iirc that would only affect you if you are going to china.
none of this is good, but to pretend like any one of us is gonna face china's wrath is a little dramatic imo.
also, how did china handle it horribly? it seems to me they got that shit contained in a matter of weeks.
iirc there's only 2 possible areas of critique:
- there was some delay in china reporting the gene sequencing of the novel coronavirus
- people have known for a while that china's meat markets are a petri dish for such diseases
the second one i wouldn't say is really related to the 'handling of the covid situation'.
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Originally Posted by Maya
Facebook and twitter have been censoring posts related to insurgency in the US and actively pushing ads with false science in them.
They also sell your data to the government to use, so if you live here... you should absolutely trust Chinese software over US software.
Yeah we should totally trust the great communism machine known as China. China already has all of our info, it's too late, and as we speak China is committing what can only be described as the modern holocaust on Uighur Muslims. I'm not surprised you would say something like this though, at this point I feel like you have to be trolling or you have some serious problems.
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Originally Posted by Vertex
US insurgencies? The closest thing i could imagine to an insurgency happening in the US is groups like proud boys, black militia groups and other militias who would start an actual insurgency.
There are plenty of us leftists who want to take away power from the US government who get silenced for it.
Originally Posted by Vertex
hey have been silencing the opposing opinion by labelling it as "hate speech" and can even affect people irl.
Well yeah... legitimate hate speech is awful and shouldn't be tolerated. Being ultra racist on a public platform can very obviously affect your life outside of social media.
Originally Posted by Vertex
There have been instances in the us where people have lost their jobs for saying a different opinion.
Primarily insanely bigoted opinions... I'm not crying over it.
Originally Posted by Vertex
Even these big tech companies are being influenced by the ccp, hence why talking about ccp in a negative light wont end well for you or anyone who agrees with you.
This just isn't true for the vast majority of US citizens. When is the last time the CCP fucked with you personally??
Originally Posted by Vertex
f you do something that's a punishable offence in china, you can be affected by it. Criticising china's way of censoring free speech will affect you. Criticising china on how china handled the covid situation horribly will affect you. Chinese apps aren't trustworthy and never will be more than American apps
The operative phrase here is in China. If you're in the west, it just doesn't affect you personally at all, which is the point I'm making.
Originally Posted by McFarbo
Yeah we should totally trust the great communism machine known as China. China already has all of our info, it's too late, and as we speak China is committing what can only be described as the modern holocaust on Uighur Muslims.
I didn't say we should blindly trust Chinese companies... I just said that if you're in the US, you should be much more worried about US companies. I'm well aware that they're committing genocide over there. Do you really think they used the data of US users to help them commit genocide...? How would that even work?? Also yeah China just simply isn't communist. They're an interesting combination of fascist and capitalist.
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