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Tech Giants, Once Seen as Saviors, Are Now Viewed as Threats

posted by martyb on Saturday October 14 2017, @12:34PM   Printer-friendly
from the follow-the-money dept.

Phoenix666 writes:

[...] tech companies are under fire for creating problems instead of solving them. At the top of the list is Russian interference in last year's presidential election. Social media might have originally promised liberation, but it proved an even more useful tool for stoking anger. The manipulation was so efficient and so lacking in transparency that the companies themselves barely noticed it was happening.

The election is far from the only area of concern. Tech companies have accrued a tremendous amount of power and influence. Amazon determines how people shop, Google how they acquire knowledge, Facebook how they communicate. All of them are making decisions about who gets a digital megaphone and who should be unplugged from the web.

Their amount of concentrated authority resembles the divine right of kings, and is sparking a backlash that is still gathering force.

Is it that the tech companies are creating problems for society as a whole, or merely disrupting the status quo for the old Powers-That-Be?

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  • (Score: -1, Troll) by Ethanol-fueled on Saturday October 14 2017, @03:42PM (3 children)

    by Ethanol-fueled (2792) on Saturday October 14 2017, @03:42PM (#582304) Homepage

    Easy. Don't allow faggots and Jews to collect in large numbers within corporations.

    Actually, even better, kick all the Jews out of America. Israel is always welcoming to Jews, and so all Jews should go there and stay there.

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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by srobert on Saturday October 14 2017, @04:00PM (1 child)

    by srobert (4803) on Saturday October 14 2017, @04:00PM (#582309)

    I support your first amendment to express such stupidity.

    • (Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Saturday October 14 2017, @07:13PM

      by JoeMerchant (3937) on Saturday October 14 2017, @07:13PM (#582378)

      Absolutely, Israel is propped up with money sent there by Jews living overseas... it would never work, economically, if they all went back to the motherland permanently.

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  • (Score: 3, Funny) by Runaway1956 on Saturday October 14 2017, @06:02PM

    by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Saturday October 14 2017, @06:02PM (#582353) Journal

    Ho-hum. Sometimes, your monologue on Jews gets tiresome. Once again - I've met real asshole Jews, and I've met other Jews who were as good as any men and women anywhere. As near as I can tell, Jews are just people. I'm far more worried about the lizard people. If you ever figure out how to identify lizard people reliably, get back to us with it. Mmm-kay?