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Alternative viewpoint: tech has benefited from a free ride of "doing no evil" for a long time and they are now being overseen the way multi-billion dollar compa
by jeromegv 7y ago
Alternative viewpoint: tech has benefited from a free ride of "doing no evil" for a long time and they are now being overseen the way multi-billion dollar companies should be. If a service is so badly moderated that their customers can get scammed by fake companies regularly, doesn't that require some kind of reporting?
- dredmorbius 7y agoThat was actually what I was suggesting, though apparently poorly. The techlash is well deserved and long overdue. WSJ and NYT are about as polar opposite as mainstream newspapers can get[1], both are exceedingly critical of at least Google, Facebook, and Twitter, if not all of FAANG and Silicon Valley. Not that Murdoch may not have his own specific axe to grind, and not to discount the spite that many traditional media publishers have over loss of ads revenues. ________________________________ Notes: 1. I'm not saying they're extremes of the spectrum. But within the mainstream they tend to define at least mainstream scope. And TV, radio, and online are a whole 'nother story.