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> GOOGLE, Facebook and other online giants like to see their rapid rise as the product of their founders’ brilliance. Others argue that their success is more a
by eternalban 10y ago
> GOOGLE, Facebook and other online giants like to see their rapid rise as the product of their founders’ brilliance. Others argue that their success is more a result of lucky timing and network effects—the economic forces that tend to make bigger firms even bigger.
(Take it easy with that down arrow button :) but yet others see their rapid rise as sponsored fronts for Intelligence.
[p.s. & I would be delighted to be presented with thoughtful replies that show /why/ the above view can not possibly be true.]
- jdoliner 10y agoWhat does a sponsored front for intelligence even mean? Sponsored by whom? For whose intelligence is it a front for?
- eternalban 10y agoSponsered: funds, contracts, press promotion, etc. Front: a front organization to conduct activities not subject to governmental oversight. Intelligence: "alphabet" agencies. Seriously, a smart person like you, ceo of a data mining company, is asking that question?
- benchaney 10y agoI think people are down lying you because your comment adds nothing to the discussion. Not because they necessarily disagree with you.
- eternalban 10y agoHow could you possibly say that it is not relevant to OP? If the handful of uber social network platforms are in fact run by intelligence, then /minimally/ articles such as OP are whitewashing these platforms. More fundamentally, they are just herding us to accept corporate "champions" that may in fact be under the control of unaccountable arms of the same corporate-statist regime.
- ebcode 10y agothe truth is often buried.
- solidsnack9000 10y ago> I would be delighted to be presented with thoughtful replies that show /why/ the above view can not possibly be true. "The one who asserts must prove." "The burden of proof lies with the accuser." Maybe you are starting the wrong way round.