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Wow, I voted for Franken. I guess I was being naive, but I was not expecting him to spurt nonsense that he has obviously not looked in to. I'm going to write
by dmoy 15y ago
Wow, I voted for Franken. I guess I was being naive, but I was not expecting him to spurt nonsense that he has obviously not looked in to.
I'm going to write an angry letter. Too bad it won't do anything :(
Guess I should have seen this coming with his nonsense about SOPA, and his spectacularly weird line of questioning in Google & Yelp's appearance at the Senate hearing last year.
- skrebbel 15y agoAren't you pulling the completely standard "omg someone said something bad about us silicon valley guys" reflex? It's in Google's and Facebook's direct financial interest to make privacy difficult for you to attain, and your senator is pointing that out. How is that a bad thing? Tech companies aren't "the good guys" by definition.
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- jrockway 15y agoIt is a little weird because every other major corporation also has a lot of data about you. Your landlord can come into your house and sell a list of items you own to the highest bidder. Everyone you ever owe money to you sends all your information to the credit reporting agencies. And so on, and so on. Singling out Facebook and Google is a little unfair. At least they have a privacy policy that you can opt out of. The credit bureaus? Not so much.