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February 24, 2020: Rana Foroohar, author, "Don't Be Evil: How Big Tech Betrayed Its Founding Principles – And All Of Us"
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Tonight: Rana Foroohar, author, Don't Be Evil: How Big Tech Betrayed Its Founding Principles - And All Of Us
• Rana Foroohar (website)
• Don't Be Evil (Rana's book on Indiebound)
Recent tech news:
• Coronavirus global tracking map from Johns Hopkins
• IRS sues Facebook for $9B, says company offshored profits to Ireland (Fox Business, Feb 18): "The IRS argues that Facebook understated the value of the intellectual property it sold to an Irish subsidiary in 2010 . . . From 2010 to 2016, Facebook Ireland paid Facebook U.S. more than $14 billion in royalties and cost-sharing payments, according to the court filing."
• Google continues to knowingly profit from hosting, displaying, and RECOMMENDING videos of murder on YouTube. Father of slain journalist Alison Parker takes on YouTube over alleged refusal to remove graphic videos (Washington Post, Feb 20): "Eric Feinberg, vice president of the Coalition for a Safer Web, said he has presented his solutions to YouTube. 'There's no incentive for them to do it' because of the site's massive profitability, Feinberg said. Google does not report YouTube's annual earnings, but Google itself reported revenue of $160.7 billion in 2019."
"Feinberg said using key data points — in Parker's case her name, her station’s name and words like 'shooting' or 'killing' — would enable YouTube to remove not only existing videos but also to stop or flag potentially offensive videos for review before they are posted. Instead, Feinberg said, YouTube uses 'algorithm amplification' to suggest one video after another that are related to the ones being watched, supplying a steady stream of content related, at least initially, to the first videos. Feinberg said that after he watched about 20 videos of the Parker shooting, YouTube began recommending other versions of the event to him."
• July 22, 2019 Techtonic featured footage of hearings on YouTube and other Big Tech companies.
• Meantime, YouTube Gaming's Most-Watched Videos Are Dominated by Scams and Cheats (Wired, Feb 18): "YouTube is littered with bot-driven videos promising big in-game riches—that also try to steal your personal information."
• Google Resists Demands From States in Digital-Ad Probe (WSJ, Feb 21): Google reports to be defying efforts of 48 state AGs to investigate its anticompetitive behavior. “It’s the Google playbook—stall, stonewall, deflect and deny, because they are afraid the public will finally get the truth.” (via Jason Kint)
• Terry Clague writes (Twitter, Feb 13): "My 8yr old's school wants me to sign a two page 'participant release' contract which grants Goooogle unrestricted global access to his voice, image, persona, etc. Would you sign this?"
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Fox:
He's a youtuber from the beginning, who has long been embroiled with scandals involving being inappropriate to underage women. and YouTube won't take any action to penalize him, even though his Patreon and Instagram have been taken down. Chris Hansen of To Catch a Predator fame has started investigating Onision, and for months now, at the end of each interview, Hansen asks the woman who heads YouTube to come and speak to him.
The forbidden words, like "predator" can't be said lest videos get demonized (how does someone post a documentary about lions?!), and yet, this Onision guy was posting images of 15 year olds and rating them with utter impunity.
ignatatus666:
There is no alternative
Once you upload to YouTube they own the rights to do whatever they want with that content as does FB when you upload pictures etc.
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Jessica:
As adults, we all must learn the art of editing. I've even explained this to my children, to make them aware of what they are watching, learning, exposed to and digest. We must use our money to cast our real vote$. Thank you.
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Handy Haversack:
Because the other edge of that sword is when Google can make more money doing something *else* with everyone's e-mail or videos and Gmail and Youtube or whatever other product just disappear. Because, again, we are not the users. We are the product.
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coelacanth∅:
he thinks google is benevolent and thinks apple also works hard to protect your privacy...but not as hard as google.
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:
Imagine we had choices for Tech here...
No Digital Free Market.
No Digital Rights for Individuals.
chresti:
Facebook offering to pay 5 bucks to users for their voice recordings
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...that's all i can do. he thinks i'm just a crazy "conspiracy theorist".
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