Corporations lie to their stakeholders, users and the general population every single day.
Google has recently been lying on a global scale and there is zero repercussions.
There are a few ways into interact on the internet which can be summed up as either an active user or a passive one.
Let’s start with the passive example first.
A person can be the recipient of a TikTok/Instagram/YouTube link where it can be opened up in a web browser such as Brave/FireFox/Chromium without that person having to log in that corporation’s platform.
At that point in time that person cannot interact with the poster or community by writing a comment or even give a thumbs up to whatever was shown, where that person is also known as a ‘lurker’.
Since no interaction can be made, that person cannot allegedly be a danger to the community, as the community is not aware that the person even exists.
Now, if a person is logged in to TikTok/Facebook/YouTube then that person can post content that may not be safe for work, or even exercising one’s right to (alleged) ‘free speech’ by criticising a government’s new agenda or the passing of an unlawfully enacted law.
Those comments may then have to be moderated in order to allegedly ‘protect’ that online community.
So now Google (via Youtube) claims that when you are lurking on their platform, you could be a bot, implying that you could hurt the community, and when you log in “this helps protect our community”.
Quite simply put, no it does not! That is a blatant lie.
When will people wake up to the lies and deception by corporations.
It’s NOT about protecting their ‘community’ but rather surveillance capitalism, keeping in mind that Google is one of the world’s largest advertising data harvesting corporations, where they need to you log in to their platform so that they can sell you (the product) to others.
Who is "our community"? The people working for Google or the people using their platforms?
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