...and the Streisand effect strikes again. Everything Rand was going to present is true. If you're building your marketing efforts around the benevolent algori

...and the Streisand effect strikes again. Everything Rand was going to present is true. If you're building your marketing efforts around the benevolent algorithmic dictators of Google and Facebook...you're not really building a business. You're sharecropping and building a house of cards. One algorithm change from the overlords and your business dries up overnight. The fact that organizers are self-censoring their talks to avoid offending Google and Facebook is evidence alone that these companies have way too much power. My favorite part is where he points out the massive mistake of everybody who drove their customers to a Facebook page and told them to "like" it. Facebook then disinter-mediated these customer relationships and cut business page reach to near zero (0.09% as he shows in one of the slides). These businesses ended up growing Facebook's business more than their own.