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[...] 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?
(Score: 1) by khallow on Sunday October 15 2017, @05:39AM
Last I checked, Clinton greatly outspent Trump, had the media on her side, and ran a more serious campaign. Still lost. As to the money going to the two big parties, there are other reasons for the correlation such as a better campaign tends to raise more funds (and the big parties tend to run far better campaigns than the small fry) or likely winners get the fair weather donors looking to save money by donating to the winner (a third party candidate that polls in low single digits isn't a destination for the sure thing donors).