Friday 12 November 2021

Maybe You Should Read This Back To Yourself Slowly, Nesrine...

Nesrine Malik on 'big tech as an excuse for bad behaviour':

When companies reach the scale and reach of Facebook, they can appear, to the right, a little too much like big governments infringing on individual privacy and freedoms. This fear is then easily capitalised on, and all sorts of unlikely victims can claim they are silenced by platforms biased against their politics. When Donald Trump intends to launch a new social media network to “stand up to the tyranny of big tech”, he is echoing the whine of many across the political spectrum. Those who, rather than admit their thinking is less popular than they would like, prefer to believe they are simply conspired against.
Where does this startling claim come from? Oh, just a long screed in the 'Guardian' whining that left-leaning ideas are being crushed by the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy, of course... 

It's not that left wing ideas are unpopular, dear me, no! Who could possibly believe such a thing?

2 comments:

Ted Treen said...

Maybe the Graun should dismiss their readership and appoint a new one, to paraphrase Bertolt Brecht.

JuliaM said...

They would, if they could!