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@ Alex
2025-05-22 06:05:15
Google has the censorship problem everyone complains about but they were among the first on the scene to seemingly offer an actual usable product of search (of course it got steadily worse and is now actively politically captured), they’ve also come up with some really neat research but can’t seem to keep a product going
Apple is accused of monopoly type behavior, although some people enjoy a device which is locked down (and for example hinders facebooks contact scraping of WhatsApp) and I think they take privacy somewhat seriously
Both apple and Google were guilty of banning parler
Facebook censors too and is increasingly unusable as a product; Zuckerberg is a bit of a slime ball and his company liked to man-in-the-middle your email address and replace it with a Facebook address (making data portability harder and also has the effect that people don’t notice messages people sent them trying to get in touch until years later). I think he’s a criminal. And yet the Russia involvement in the 2016 election seems to have been a hoax? So is Cambridge analytica just a nothing story?
Why can’t we just fucking have one platform that does everything right for once?