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> mass surveillance > rent seeking > first mover advantage This reads like an HN buzzword bingo card. But seriously, a lot of your claims are flimsy or misi
by xibalba 5y ago
> mass surveillance
> rent seeking
> first mover advantage
This reads like an HN buzzword bingo card.
But seriously, a lot of your claims are flimsy or misinformed, which goes to credibility. Cambridge Analytica was a huge nothingburger that had no actual effect on US elections or Brexit. Google did not have first mover advantage, they were so late to the search engine game that it caused them trouble in their early financing. Show us a real, known harm from Clearview. Google and Facebook are not breaking any laws, so how can they be "invading privacy"? The bottom line is, people love FAANG tech, and are happy to trade their data to use it. And one of the reasons is because they are not experiencing real harm, in spite of what HN's white knights would have us believe.