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Cory Doctorow: The Internet Con (Hardcover, 2023, Verso)

When the tech platforms promised a future of "connection," they were lying. They said their …

Google made a mistake. So do judges. When judges make mistakes, you have the theoretical possibility of appealing. When Google makes a mistake, you don’t even get that theoretical chance. If we are to punish people who traffic in child sex abuse materials (and I think we should), those punishments should be meted out by a publicly accountable justice system after a fair trial that adheres to the bedrock principles of due process. It shouldn’t be meted out by unaccountable corporate giants who get to punish you in ways that far exceed any court’s reach.

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About Big Tech unilateral and impossible to revert judgment, and how final it is to be removed from our digital life by @pluralistic@mamot.fr