How the Internet was Stolen
3.2M views · Dec 20, 2022 · Education
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@privatenorby · 3 years ago
Surprised you didn't mention how Google used to have the phrase "don't be evil" in their corporate motto, but secretly erased it some years ago.
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@groadybones · 3 years ago
Corporations should not be allowed to lobby governments. Why tf do we treat corporations like real people. It's fucked
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@groadybones · 3 years ago
Bill Gates: "Wah, software shouldn't be free, unless I need to undercut a market."
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@nightlight0x07cc · 2 years ago
"We expect that advertising funded search engines will be biased towards advertisers"<br><br>>Ads by Google
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@theethans898 · 3 years ago (edited)
I feel more like I used to swim around freely in the ocean but someone has dropped huge nets and is trying to keep me in a bubble of approved information and narratives
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@gav240z · 3 years ago
Having worked for a big silicon valley tech firm for 11.5 years, I'm a firm believer that we need alternatives. They simply wield too much control over our lives and data. We need to be able to break free from their imposed shackles.
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@Jasontyo · 3 years ago
Lobbying seems to be the single largest problem in all of human society.
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@thefrayedends · 2 years ago
Kind of crazy that this 2-hour doc barely even scratched the surface lol
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@Romashka_Sov · 3 years ago
Google in 1998: "We expect that advertising funded search engines will be inherently biased towards the advertisers and away from the needs of the consumers. Gis type of bias is very difficult to detect, but could still have a significant effect on the market. We believe the issue of advertising causes enough mixed incentives that it is crucial to have a competitive search engine that is transparent and in the academic realm" (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLLxpAZzy0s&t=3656">1:00:56</a>)<br>Google 25 years later:
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@pennywaldrip3774 · 3 years ago
I lived through all of this, and had only a slim awareness of most of it even happening. Now it turns my stomach to have the history listed out so clearly in "these people warned" followed by "and here that thing happened."
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@aby110 · 2 years ago
Even dating has been entirely transformed by the internet and the emergence of dating apps. Now even that has been turned into a shopping mall that spies on you.
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@edwardlwittlif · 3 years ago (edited)
I first logged into the internet when I was seven years old in 1997. Ever since, I've watched with dismay as what used to be a wild world of freedom and creativity has been gradually colonized, piece by piece, by big business, a space that once felt functionally infinite now consolidated into a handful of privately owned platforms.<br><br>This video is an incredible piece that provides real context about, and insight into, the withering of that dream. Thank you.
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