Google steps in after McDonald's gets ‘review bombed’ over arrest in UnitedHealth CEO's murder
Google steps in after McDonald's gets ‘review bombed’ over arrest in UnitedHealth CEO's murder
Google said that such negative reviews, unrelated to the actual business, “violates” its policies, and hence have been removed.
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All this convenience in tech. We never stopped to ask ourselves what we were giving up. Add protest to the list of sacrifices to the altar of affluence.
I was enthusiastic over tech then and I did stop, I did also tell these things to my classmates and friends, and was treated as some mix of nerd and luddite simultaneously, if you can believe that.
The Luddite - An anticapitalist Tech blog helped me understand why these seemingly contradictory worldviews don't necessarily have to be--its a matter of what and for whom technology has been put to use.
As an example, Louis Pasteur gave away his patent for the good of medicine. It sounds almost impossible to believe against the modern backdrop of pharmaceutical companies that don't even want to develop cures, they want "subscription" customers.
People have been trained now that since no one watches out for them they have to take their pound of flesh however it can be gotten--this is what stands out to people when they talk about societal decay, selfishness and anomie but it can be difficult to put ones finger on without understanding the workings of the machine.
For me it seems that in our childhood and dreams we can fit bigger things in our mind.
Such as that sometimes no one watches out for you and sometimes someone does, and there's no bigger secret. It's just this.
If the only form of protest we have is virtual and based on stars and upvotes, then we are doing it very, very wrong
Don't get me wrong, I also hate Monopolies, but a company exercising their rights on their own platform? Fine by me. Just don't use their platform.
That's a reasonable stance to take when said company is just one competing in a marketplace. But when they are a monopoly operating a quasi-utility that should be public its not good enough.
It's interacting in our country, meaning we can do more than only "don't use it". When the platform is so massive, has little competition, or most other platforms do the same thing in question.. maybe we should do more.
How is spreading lies about a company on a review platform a "protest"?
Surely if there was something to protest about, it would be about things that company had actually done, right?