Another great article from 404 Media highlighting the power that the tech giants have amassed over how how we use the internet.

This brings me, I think, to the elephant in the room, which is the fact that Google has its hands on quite literally every aspect of this entire saga as a vertically integrated adtech giant.

This extreme power over the adtech and online advertising ecosystem is one of the subjects of an FTC antitrust suit against Google.

  • Stantana@lemmy.sambands.net
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    1 year ago

    No need to be sarcastic, in my kingdom I’ll be absolute ruler and “censor” and suppress others as I see fit.

    And everybody else is free to do the same and tell me to feck off.

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      1 year ago

      I think censorship in the Fediverse works because you can always find a host which aligns with your ideology. Bad ideas automatically die out if the overwhelming majority of people stop spreading it, not because a giant megacorp decides it’s not a good message to show to their shareholders.

      • Stantana@lemmy.sambands.net
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        1 year ago

        But good ideas can be hidden from users if an admin bans instances or remote users. It’s a new type of censorship.