Yes, it’s a lot worse. The particular difference is that one of these organizations has the power to disappear you without consequence.
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tux0r@feddit.org 1 month agoI’m not sure whether it could be worse.
beejjorgensen@lemmy.sdf.org 1 month ago
vivendi@programming.dev 1 month ago
I know people like to hate on google, but google is actually like 3 companies in a trench coat.
They do highly valuable open source / open ecosystem work (I will say the chance of you indirectly using a google tool without knowing is over 90% now) and if the American government, a capitalist fascist government no less, gets their hands on it, we’re fucked
Not all of google is adsense or YouTube.
tux0r@feddit.org 1 month ago
I hope there’s no Google in my life.
catloaf@lemm.ee 1 month ago
It would be worse. They would use that access to target people.
Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
Do you think anything is stopping them now? Why do you think these systems were built?
tempest@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
I mean they were built to make money, the fact that you can send them a national security letter is just a happy accident that keeps the NSA from having to run more datacenters.
Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
I respectfully disagree. They were built for power and control. Monestisation just paid for it and helped adoption.
wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Profits. Dead people don’t pay.
Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
Dead people also have no claim on the present or future. You can own more, even when the pie is shrinking if you negate others claims.