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TL;DR - O’Reilly argues Big Tech is not as responsible as Big Tobacco, Big Oil and all the other big baddies because Big Tech devotes large resources to researc
by scyzoryk_xyz 6y ago
TL;DR - O’Reilly argues Big Tech is not as responsible as Big Tobacco, Big Oil and all the other big baddies because Big Tech devotes large resources to researching and deploying counter measures. And that is mostly it as far as insight.
IMHO - this is largely fair and true, only his POV is distinctly technocratic. He says China does “some bad things” with facial recognition but the tech has some great potential. We’re not scapegoating Big Tech - we’re applying the brakes because it operates like a monopoly and enables far scarier scenarios than Big Tobacco or Big Oil.