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  • X. I can’t think of a tech company that’s done more harm this year.

    • You say that as if destroying Twitter was a bad thing.

      • For some cases, yes it was bad. Plenty of organizations used Twitter as a micro blog to keep interested parties up to date... Like a short concise RSS. That's what I primarily used Twitter for, for years, and that was Twitter at its best.

      • Twitter once was an online townhall where people can start any movement or use it to spread their movement to wide masses. These days it's just some shitty tool for propaganda.

  • Apple. Not the most evil, for certain, but they have the highest percentage of high level business choices that piss me off. Just so antithetical to my philosophy and consumer preferences. All closed, all hyper controlled, low customization, anti-repairable.

    Do it their way or go fuck yourself. Something break? Fuck you, it's your fault, buy another one. Want to play games on their very capable hardware? Grow up, no compatibility. Want to make their OS work on other machines? How dare you. Thief.

    • I would say Apple isn't as severe as something like Meta or "X" but the amount of influence apple has over the industry is insane. There's a reason why so many laptops are losing ports "because the MacBook has it" or why smartphones are stagnating and when they "innovate" they're just removing more features like the SD card reader all simply because "Apple did it". Hell, Windows has been trying to be like Mac OS for years from its flat minimal design to its oversimplification of its design to trying to make their own "eco system". Apple's influence can even extend beyond tech with their flat minimalist, corporate design being applied to every industry and building and design ever to be conceived in 2023. Everyone is trying to be Apple from Tech companies to fast food joints. Truly if we measure their influence and the power they carry moving entire industries to do various things. They are one of the most powerful company in silicon valley. Everything we hate about modern tech and how restrictive it is can be sourced all the way back to Apple.

      • This is all very true within the US and in regards to companies that do a lot of business within the US. Globally though, they're not nearly as big or influential.

  • Meta, they have a huge reach to a lot of ignorant people and they seem actively disdainful of user privacy.

  • Reddit did something pretty shitty this year and is the reason many of us are here.

    Blizzard Activision if we are counting gaming companies with their sexual harassment controversies which have led to suicide (also the cosby suite), their shitty monetization schemes, and the utter ruination of most of their popular IPs

    • Aye. It's the reason I'm here. And I'm glad of it. Sadly i was too lazy before, but they forced me now.

      Also aye to blizzard. Nasty buggers.

  • Id argue Blackrock is a finance company that uses tech rather than being a tech company. But the differences these days are pretty negligible. In my mind a tech company provides tech to end users (google fb etc). Maybe a fintech? But even then in my mind thats more like a start up “modern tech” bank rather than a classical bank.

    Meta, XFormerlyKnownAsTwitter, Google are all pretty bad for society these days

  • Whichever contributes the most to anti-competitive corporate culture. Most problems at the end-user level can be solved by having sufficient competition (and some labor problems, too).

    Unfortunately, there are plenty to choose from.

    There's Microsoft's "embrace, extend, and extinguish" strategy. Comcast's creation of artificial legal barriers to competition by lobbying state and local lawmakers. And then there's Amazon doing it by sheer hard power to put competitors under (plus all their anti-union crap).

  • Amazon, Facebook (Meta), Microsoft, OpenAI are top of my list simply due to being aware of them.

    though I'm sure most large tech corps have blood on their hands in some way or another, doing "well" under capitalism demands exploitation.

  • If we're limited to just tech companies, it's gotta be Amazon. Their unfair business practices and horrible work conditions make them one of the most deplorable companies on the planet

  • Surprisingly. Xero. They are muscling their "partners", and screwing them for every penny they can get. Xero it turns out, has switched on enshitification and turned evil.

  • Microsoft. I am sorry but they ruin everything they touch with bloat.

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