@michaelchampion@indieweb.social
Post #1385035
2022-12-19 22:05 UTC
@robin @cdub @danbri
"I also don't think Wu's point is "and therefore, do nothing about it.""
Right, and it's not my point either. I'm saying that it's pointless to cast this as a narrative with G as the supervillain. And sure, G makes a good villain in an entertaining storyline. But just like James Bond defeated each supervillain only to have to face a new one in the next movie in the franchise, we can't focus on defeating Google, but on fixing the incentives that create supervillains
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@robin@mastodon.social 2022-12-20 15:46
@michaelchampion @cdub @danbri Agreed — I don't think that G is a supervillain and I have no interest in casting them as one. I was only trying to carefully explain why I thought that if you have 1. a serious structural problem, 2. that can be solved, and 3. that is exclusively or predominantly exploited by company X then I reckon you can call it "an X problem" without it being a vow to obliterate X in any way. Y'all made the case that's unhelpful either way; I'll stop.