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Perhaps such things should be controlled democratically instead of by a single person or a small group of people whose companies are organized as dictatorships.


It is controlled democratically. The people have democratically ceded their knowledge gathering to large companies. Because people are above all else lazy


That's not what democracy is. The algorithm is developed in an organization that is structured as a dictatorship.


And each user decided of their own volition to use the service under the pretense of delegating to such an algorithm.


"Decide" is a heavily weighted word here. From what did they decide? Was the field from which they were deciding, perhaps monopolized, or ologipopalized? Was there information skewed by the entities hoping to be chosen? Do said entities have stunning amounts of capital and power that let them prevent competition?




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