There's also a riff on Arthur C. Clarke's law. Any sufficiently complex or opaque system of control is indistinguishable from tyranny. What we see over and ove

There's also a riff on Arthur C. Clarke's law. Any sufficiently complex or opaque system of control is indistinguishable from tyranny. What we see over and over with tech cases like this is 1) We can't tell you exactly how we figure stuff out because then you'd game it, 2) Things happen based on actions and associations you don't realize are important This is effectively having somebody show up at your house at random times and punch you in the face. But, we are told, it's all for the greater good. I don't doubt that the averages work out -- more good is done than evil. I do, however, doubt that such over-generalizing is so much for the greater good as it is for the bottom lines of the tech companies involved.