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The perspective of this article feel naive for 2020. "You can't put out forest fires by pissing, but if we all piss together... uhm maybe... no wait" Here's wh
by netcan 7y ago
The perspective of this article feel naive for 2020. "You can't put out forest fires by pissing, but if we all piss together... uhm maybe... no wait"
Here's what I mean:
withering criticism from politicians, consumers and the press over the way in which search results displays were made to look like... .. It’s also a pretty evil by a company whose mantra was “Don’t be evil.” ..paid advertisements are ever more indistinguishable
This is like addressing the plastic straw problem on Shell oil rigs. Google and Facebook are both (among other things) more influential over media than Murdoch and the next five runners-up combined. Traditional media obviously also violate their own "journalistic ethics" for money reasons, but at least there is such a code. They teach college courses on it.
Google & FB have more influence on things like elections, war/peace & culture, but they don't even have an ethic to violate. Zuch won't even admit that Facebook is a political media outlet, despite being the most significant one to have ever existed.
Withering criticism of font choices is so 2007. "Vehement demands for antitrust action" is what we're about in the 1920s.