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Facebook, Google, and the Death of the Public Square
- gowld 8y agoHogwash. The author simultaneously complains that big tech companies both oppose free expression and make expression too free for the author's desires. The author's main concern is that Google/Facebook allow too many low-quality people to speak, instead of only allowing speech approved by gatekeepers like himself. > By radically remaking the advertising business and commandeering news distribution, Google and Facebook have damaged the economics of journalism. Amazon has thrashed the bookselling business in the U.S. They have shredded old ideas about intellectual property—which had provided the economic and philosophical basis for authorship.
- XalvinX 8y agoIt is pretty clear that the Internet (including sites like this one) have made for a huge 'public square' including pretty much everyone. Neither Facebook nor Google produce any original content on their own, they just make platforms. Google's reviews (tied in with Maps) is a great example...how much freer do you want?
- commandlinefan 8y ago> it has no opinion about what it offers ... Thank God?