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Roger McNamee is really sad about Facebook

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Re: Roger McNamee is really sad about Facebook

#11

The piece of sh#t bloatware that is time.com just crashed my phone while loading all the resources to read a text-based article. Go figure.

Looking at it via ublock origin the number of things blocked just keeps on ticking up. At aprox the 1 minute mark its at 108.

Re: Roger McNamee is really sad about Facebook

#12
post #10

I got involved with the company more than a decade ago and have taken great pride and joy in the company’s success … until the past few months. few months ? Then you haven't been paying attention or are just as bad as them.

He says in the next paragraph that that was from an email he sent to Marc and Sheryl before the 2016 election.

Re: Roger McNamee is really sad about Facebook

#14

A heavily-recycled story that's been making the rounds since at least 2017. No matter, have to keep the outrage machine going to drive traffic!

Here's the same story from 2017: https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2017/08/08/my-google-...

I don't think that makes it less relevant in general, but there's nothing "new" here. There doesn't need to be anything new for the point to still be interesting, but it does reveal something about our bias towards the "new" in our political conversation and analysis.

Re: Roger McNamee is really sad about Facebook

#19

A heavily-recycled story that's been making the rounds since at least 2017. No matter, have to keep the outrage machine going to drive traffic!

I'm personally glad the story made to the front page again as I find it very relevant today and I've never read it before.

Re: Roger McNamee is really sad about Facebook

#20
Is it feasible to create a corporate structure that would encourage it to act with the public interest in mind? Are there any known patterns, research, or tries? My very ill-informed mind is thinking of a parent-child structure where the parent gets to veto and only veto decisions made by its children that may be harmful for the general public.
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