I don't necessarily blame people or organizations who took money from Google 10-15 years ago.
But those who received funding in recent years or plan to in the future really deserve to get called out on it, and should expect it to be mentioned when their work is being discussed.
Tech giants are now spending hundreds of millions to systematically shape policy across the world, including donations and funding to policymakers, civil society orgs, media orgs and academia.
A decade ago, this may not have been clear to everyone. Now it really should be.
@wchr So do we counter this by telling people what big tech is doing or do we counter this by making the fediverse more appealing to people by promoting the diverse content that is on here and the fact instances don't track users, collect data or do other stuff.
Or perhaps a combination of both.
I tend to find people are so tied in to big tech, they don't care what they are doing.
