What is SocialMediaStrike? r/technology joins protest against Facebook and Twitter, shuts down for 24 hours
. In 2013, the Edward Snowden revelations put the spotlight on how the firms are used for surveillance. Presidential candidate Sen. Elizabeth Warren has recently pledged to break up Amazon, Google and Facebook.on the movement has attracted little attention, with just over 2,500 signatures at the time of writing. A lot of Sanger's tweets on the boycott have generated little engagement.
The stance was rejected by Sanger. He said:"The analogy doesn't hold because we're not objecting to social media per se but to top-down control of silos of data by social media giants. I don't oppose social media. I oppose centralized, authoritarian, unaccountable... closed social media." Facebook and Google did not immediately respond to a request for comment. A Twitter public relations spokesperson declined to provide a statement on the matter, saying:"We don't have a comment here."
A notice voiced solidarity with a movement being promoted this week by Larry Sanger, a co-founder of Wikipedia, who called for strike action on July 4 and July 5.
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