The power of digital platforms — also labelled ‘technological giants’ — has brought this irony home. Digital platforms do offer hitherto unimagined freedoms, shored up with a dazzling array of choices; even conventional media platforms need them to interest young people in news they would not bother with otherwise. But the price of ‘free’ digital platforms is high. Media sites have protested that they work under heavy regulation while digital platforms have none; a balance must be reached for the sake of justice. The company’s attitude as well as the potential of faceless digital control over private lives is immeasurably sinister.

Source: The Telegraph December 16, 2018 03:22 UTC