With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility: Platforms Want To Be Utilities, Self-Govern Like Empires | Electronic Frontier Foundation

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Whether it’s “bringing the world closer together” (Facebook), “organizing the world’s information” (Google), to be a market “where customers can find and discover anything they might want to buy online” (Amazon) or “to make personal computing accessible to each and every individual” (Apple), the founding missions of tech giants reveal a desire to become indispensable to our digital lives.

Believe the Hype After decades of hype, it’s only natural for your eyes to skate over corporate mission-statements without stopping to take note of them, but when it comes to ending your relationship with them, tech giants’ stated goals take on a sinister cast. Whether it’s “bringing the world closer together” ( Facebook ), “organizing the world’s information” ( Google ), to be a market “where customers can find and discover anything they might want to buy online” ( Amazon ) or “to make personal computing accessible to each and every individual” ( Apple ), the founding missions of tech giants

With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility: Platforms Want To Be Utilities, Self-Govern Like Empires | Electronic Frontier Foundation

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