Good heavens, this is exactly the kind of thing the guidelines refer to here:
> Eschew flamebait. Don't introduce flamewar topics unless you have something genuinely new to say. Avoid unrelated controversies and generic tangents.
I think it's odd to even include ISIS on any list of "threats to humanity." How many orders of magnitude could more damage could Google do by accident compared to ISIS?
Not even mentioning ISIS was created by the CIA. The US is the largest state sponsor of terrorism, but private internet megacorps are the biggest threat to freedom of speech. They're both pretty bad threats, just in very different ways.
> IS has directly been responsible for hundreds of thousands of deaths and many more injuries
So has the USA, and likely all current first-world countries. Should the USA not be #1 on the threats to humanity? Actually, come to think of it, drinking has been directly responsible for hundreds of thousands of deaths and many more injuries. Maybe that should be #2?
Your list of threats is just the current round of scare mongering topics. Noticeably lacking are actual threats, like climate change and the rise of nationalism. And yes, a company that controls as much information (and access to that information) can be very very dangerous.
Literally hundreds/thousands of people are killed by our own citizens every day, I'm not concerned with an additional 8. Google has the ability to negatively affect hundreds of millions of lives on a global scale over a significantly long term. ISIS is not even in the same ballpark.
Clearly the OP meant in the context of anticompetitive action the tech industry,
not including foreign (at war) countries that have concentration camps. This kind of snark really takes away from the discussion.
Come on, I have no sympathy for NK's regime, but that's victim blaming.
The threat is "baiting someone into nuclear war" and not "having tens of thousands of nuclear warheads and being ready to use them to kill millions of people"? Give me an effing break mate :)
I think this is highly unlikely. There's simply no point. NK needs nuclear weapons to stave off possible US invasion. They are not crazy people. Crazy people can't create nuclear weapons just to randomly kill people for no reason.
