Let me know when they've reigned in the banks, oil/gas companies, etc. Then I'll worry about silicon valley. They've got a 100-200 year head start.
Conservatives, liberals unite against Silicon Valley
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Re: Conservatives, liberals unite against Silicon Valley
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Ive had a bit to drink but hear me out, I never comment on sites. You have essentially three companies, Google, Facebook, Microsoft. At this point they now dictate what roughly 2-4 billion people see everyday. If they begin censoring content they disagree with (and that can come from a small cadre of roughly 20-200 people per group, whether we are talking about google search, bing, youtube, etc) then they need to be…
propagandistic control That's not actually a thing. AT&T was a government-created monopoly that not only directly prevented (not indirectly, via hand-wavy causal chains) the emergence of competitors to its monopoly, but even directly suppressed the emergence of competitive collateral markets that relied on telephony services. Monopolies aren't bad in themselves. Both common sense and the law require that monopolies b…
Well said. I think it's easy for people to think, "it should be this way, so let's do something" without realizing that the Law of Unintended Consequences is almost always a participant in outcomes. Human behavior is a wildly complex thing to predict and incentivize. Often times the counter-intuitive approach of "let it work out" is actually the optimal approach.
Re: Conservatives, liberals unite against Silicon Valley
#13It's amazing how the political elite are realizing they don't have complete control of every step of the process. It's almost as if they are reacting out of fear of these tech companies and their ability to influence law making in the same way that other more traditional industries have been for decades.