“Good folks should keep working at Facebook and Google as they regulate their worst abuses” is as silly an argument as “vegans should work at factory farms” and “doctors should work for Philip Morris”. No, you legitimise and enable the abuses of those companies. You’re complicit.
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Aral Balkan Retweeted Aral Balkan
Eric Schmidt once told me “if we become truly evil, we won’t find anyone to work for us.” They know it’s their Archilles’ heel. They need the best of the best. If the best of the best leave, they stagnate. Leave the regulating to the regulators and work on ethical alternatives.https://twitter.com/aral/status/975642727009456128 …
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Aral Balkan @aral“Good folks should keep working at Facebook and Google as they regulate their worst abuses” is as silly an argument as “vegans should work at factory farms” and “doctors should work for Philip Morris”. No, you legitimise and enable the abuses of those companies. You’re complicit.Show this thread5 replies 17 retweets 34 likesShow this thread -
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“Users” (people who use these services) are the victims here, so let’s not to blame them. For the most part, surveillance-based products are all that exist; their only choice is who gets to profile them – Google, FB, Yahoo, … – or to disconnect. We need ethical alternatives.
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Yes, we are victims, but we are also citizens, and as such have some power. We choose which services to use and engage with. We choose whether we support consumer rights groups, or vote for politicians that support those rights. We have more power than we think.
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Indeed we do. If we want to make use of those rights: 1. We must combat institutional corruption and remove the influence of corporate finance in public policy-making 2. Overhaul the democratic system so our options aren’t far right or neoliberals; gain agency over issues…
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