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The title is misleading. The whole presentation is critical of Google and FB. The conference was fine with the slides that criticized them for the way they do
by fallingknife 6y ago
The title is misleading. The whole presentation is critical of Google and FB. The conference was fine with the slides that criticized them for the way they do business with their partners. They asked for the removal of the slides that go into wider politics, like trying to blame FB/Google for political extremism and income inequality. Totally reasonable decision IMO.
- jart 6y agoNah dude. Most of his criticisms, most Googlers would probably agree with him. It was probably because he called Google "unreliable". That's one of the few words that will actually hurt the monster. It's also not true. It's sort of like shouting "The Golden Gate Bridge is falling down!" on the radio.
- pas 6y agoHow is it not true? They will terminate your account (like Amazon drops sellers), without any warning, and that's it. There are stories about this right here on HN almost each day. (Yes this naturally only affects a small number of their accounts, but it's not negligible, and it's the exact opposite of a well managed and understood risk which would be needed for reliability.)
- lrvick 6y agoDid we forget the countless services Facebook and Google have dramatically altered or killed over the years that can never be forked or restarted elsewhere because they are proprietary? The only services we should assume are reliable are the ones that directly generate profits. I expect neither company will shut down their ad selling systems but everything else I would not consider reliable.
- fallingknife 6y agoThey asked him to remove specific slides. The ones that called Google unreliable were approved.