I'm not accusing at all, just describing in a belligerent tone ;)
What I'm accusing (bemoaning?) them of mostly is being big, corporate and basically reserving a big portion of media for that big-corporate voice. This isn't new in media, but it is in online media.
On the point about policing truth (or maybe currating content)..this is just something they now have to deal with. Regimes have fallen on their platform, coups prevented, elections impacted.... They can't hide behind algorithmic moral neutrality as Google 1.0 did, at least least not without taking a bold (costly) stance in a free speech direction.
At the moment Google and Facebook are trying to be neither democratic or undemocratic. Not unbiased, just unopinionated in their role as the media. This is something you could only say in a corporate tone of voice.
These problems are all consequences of being enormous superpowers. I want stuff from GoogleFb, stuff I might feel I have a right to like speech or affiliation. I have to go to them for these. We don't have the "don't like my store, shop elsewhere" relationship anymore because they have all the stores where all the people buying and selling are.
What I'm accusing (bemoaning?) them of mostly is being big, corporate and basically reserving a big portion of media for that big-corporate voice. This isn't new in media, but it is in online media.
On the point about policing truth (or maybe currating content)..this is just something they now have to deal with. Regimes have fallen on their platform, coups prevented, elections impacted.... They can't hide behind algorithmic moral neutrality as Google 1.0 did, at least least not without taking a bold (costly) stance in a free speech direction.
At the moment Google and Facebook are trying to be neither democratic or undemocratic. Not unbiased, just unopinionated in their role as the media. This is something you could only say in a corporate tone of voice.
These problems are all consequences of being enormous superpowers. I want stuff from GoogleFb, stuff I might feel I have a right to like speech or affiliation. I have to go to them for these. We don't have the "don't like my store, shop elsewhere" relationship anymore because they have all the stores where all the people buying and selling are.