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What would you say is the agenda of Reddit (the company, not the users)?



Any ideas that make you uncomfortable are an "agenda" now.


Attempting to rewrite history and racism regardless of the race involved makes me uncomfortable yes. Do you disagree that Google had an agenda when they programmed their AI to do the things it does?


This is an interesting comment because we readily anthropomorphise every entity and fail to see Google as an umbrella for a group of people that may make decisions in terms of a democratic or autocratic means depending on context.

In this instance "The Google" has expressed "an agenda".

I disagree that individuals might have been trying to wrong society but unfortunately it's the measurable results and direction of the company as a whole that exhibits the agenda and in this instance it's quite a blow to the ability for society to record a factual account of history so it can learn from its mistakes.

This seems to be the case for the latest tech. in general, suddenly upending the taxi industry, forcing small businesses to pay the gig-culture delivery tax, AI mass generating content and creating an imbalance in creative output.

We have a fun decade ahead...




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