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• HawlSera@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Actually I will, because big Tech used to be on the level because they knew they would be called out for fuckery. Then Facebook brought the Baby Boomers online and it was the Eternal September on steroids.

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  • nyanyans@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Those are still actions made by the tech companies. Blaming people for not complaining enough is not the best take on this. Just shifts the blame to the public, not to the people who made those decisions in the first place

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• DogMuffins@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  This is the same chicken / egg thing as plastic pollutions.

  Sure consumers choice of whether to discard or recycle a plastic straw is nothing compared to the decisions of corporations, but then consumers invest in those companies, buy their products, and elect representatives who do not hold them accountable.

  Big tech has ruined the internet because people were willing to trade their privacy and their attention in order to watch gifs of cats playing the piano. I’m not “blaming” people for that - hell, I was one of them, but you can’t solve the problem without understanding how it’s perpetuated.

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• LogarithmicCamel@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The normies support big tech, they love it. They probably work for big tech, or wish they did, or at least imagine themselves as the next Elon Musk.

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  • Blackmist@feddit.uk ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The “normies” don’t even know what these things are. It’s just the big blue “f” on their phone, or the colourful camera icon.

    Half this shit is installed by default on pretty much any phone you can buy.

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• CaptainProton@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Strictly speaking, management at Big Tech are all normies and they make the decisions.

  I think the point is solid: non-tech-people sell capabilities to other non-tech-people to make money, and this forms a feedback loop and drives direction. A non-big-tech world is wildly different because it’s more like tech people building an environment for doing things with other tech people.

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  • twotone@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Management of big tech are excessively rich assholes. The rich, by the very definition, do not fall into the category of “normal people”

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  • RobertOwnageJunior@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Strictly speaking, that’s nonsense. Is everyone that’s not you a normie? Or is normie a ‘normal person’, which then absolutely does not include rich managers of big tech companies.

    Really strange point to make, man.

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• scottywh@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  “Don’t be an asshole”? As a response to a two sentence statement.

  I think you’re the fucking asshole regardless of how much blame “big tech” and corporations in general bear here.

  Slow the fuck down.

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