Google, Facebook may have to reveal deepest secrets
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#2$1.5 billion was spent in the federal election season. 100k was bought by Russian interests and were questioning those 100k when we spend much more destabilizing other governments we oppose.
Still, we should look into why a campaign season wastes 1.5 billion on one contest and no one bats an eye, or some do a little but the media couldn't care less. It's one of their cash cows.
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#3FB, Amazon and Google have to be split up. It is not in the interest of the society or safe to have such huge companies with such huge power.
For Google at the very least the search engine has to become a separate independent entity with restrictions on how and what information is exchanges with the rest.
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#4Well they are about to find out they are may be billions of features/factors that could involve those algorithms.
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#5The "Russia, Russia, Russia" Democrats are the same ones who want to regulate everything except silicon valley, this isn't even on the radar for the Republicans, and even Europe is somewhat in their thrall thanks to branch offices and the Dutch sandwich.
All of this just proves to me that my US public school education on communism and the eastern bloc was simple propaganda. We are perfectly OK with having an unaccountable surveillance state as long as it makes money.
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#6It was apparently $100k spent by RT to promote news stories. Why is it so unusual for a news company to spend money promoting news stories on social media sites?
This is nothing out of the ordinary (including if a government did try small actions to impact an election), and yet it has become such an intense witch hunt during the 2016 election.
Re: Google, Facebook may have to reveal deepest secrets
#7FB, Amazon and Google have to be split up. It is not in the interest of the society or safe to have such huge companies with such huge power. For Google at the very least the search engine has to become a separate independent entity with restrictions on how and what information is exchanges with the rest.
I would argue that they do not to be split up, but commercial advertising has to be banned from the internet. This would fix pretty much every issue we face now.
Re: Google, Facebook may have to reveal deepest secrets
#8FB, Amazon and Google have to be split up. It is not in the interest of the society or safe to have such huge companies with such huge power. For Google at the very least the search engine has to become a separate independent entity with restrictions on how and what information is exchanges with the rest.
I would argue that they do not to be split up, but commercial advertising has to be banned from the internet. This would fix pretty much every issue we face now.
while we're doing things we'll never actually do, let's decide that money is not speech, ban all political contributions and publicly finance all election campaigns and fix every American problem for real.
Re: Google, Facebook may have to reveal deepest secrets
#9It was apparently $100k spent by RT to promote news stories. Why is it so unusual for a news company to spend money promoting news stories on social media sites? This is nothing out of the ordinary (including if a government did try small actions to impact an election), and yet it has become such an intense witch hunt during the 2016 election.
They are just overdoing it with this Russian witch hunt, it will end up costing them the election again if they keep up with it...
Re: Google, Facebook may have to reveal deepest secrets
#10FB, Amazon and Google have to be split up. It is not in the interest of the society or safe to have such huge companies with such huge power. For Google at the very least the search engine has to become a separate independent entity with restrictions on how and what information is exchanges with the rest.
Many of the valuable projects that we get from FB (AI Research), Amazon (Echo, Kindle, etc.), Google (Brain, Waymo, GMail, Android, etc.), are due to their strong market position and a product that throws off cash. They have this market position because they are the best at what they do. These companies don't have monopolies because of government mandate, they have them because they make the best products.
It's frightening to think that there are people out there who want to kill the goose that lays the golden eggs but comforting that they are nowhere near the majority opinion. I hope it stays that way. I would hate to see Google Brain, Waymo, and Deep Mind go the way of Bell Labs.