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Post by dolphie on Jul 23, 2011 11:37:30 GMT -5
Turk or Jack, If you can think of a better name - please change the thread title.
Since companies like Google affect many of our freedoms - a thread that addresses them is in line.
I have not liked Google since just before they went public. When they were a search engine, they were incredible. Now, even their search engine is pathetic at best.
They have made deals with China to filter information that goes to the public. They have filtered websites here in the USA - conservative sites are frequently disallowed.
Of late - when one searches content, for some odd reason wikipedia is at the top of the list of resources. We ALL know (or should know) wikipedia is biased and inaccurate.
Next post is one on google.
ABC, CBS, NBC, etc can fit here as well as long as it is about their television stations. We already have the yellow journalism thread to cover biased/fake news.
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Post by dolphie on Jul 23, 2011 11:39:15 GMT -5
polipundit.com/?p=31992Do As I Say, Not As I Do By PoliPundit ~ July 22nd, 2011 @ 9:46 am Just like liberals everywhere, Google wants to impose things on the rest of us that Googlers don¡¯t have to follow: Google is requiring users of its latest social networking service, Google+, to have public profiles. Meanwhile, top Google executives are taking advantage of a hidden Google+ feature to enjoy greater privacy. Google wants Google+ users to disclose the number and identities of their friends. But top Google executives are hiding the very same information. Technology writer Ed Bott learned how when he visited socialstatistics.com, a website that tracks thousands of Google+ users. Bott observed that four of the top ten users (ranked according to number of ¡°followers¡±) were Googlers. He also noticed something different about them: each displayed a ¡°0¡å in the ¡°friends¡± column. Exploring Google+¡¯s user interface, Bott discovered what he describes as a ¡°useful but hard-to-find privacy feature that is disabled by default.¡± He found that clicking on an unlabeled icon opens a dialog box and unchecking one of the settings makes information about your friends private. In theory, any Google+ user can hide the number and identities of their friends. But Google+¡¯s designers went out of their way to discourage most users from doing this. As the world¡¯s biggest data-mining operation, Google knows more about user behavior than anyone else. Most users presume the default settings are best and won¡¯t try to change them. Still, other users might be curious, so Google hid the dialog box behind an unlabeled icon. Those users who do manage to find it would have to uncheck a box; Google knows that some users would never think to do that while others would worry about unintended consequences. In the end, only insiders and power users get privacy. Unfortunately, this isn¡¯t an isolated case: Google routinely treats others in ways that Google does not want to be treated. Google advocates open systems ¡ª particularly in markets Google does not control. But Google¡¯s search engine and ad auctions are closed systems. Google claims that it cares about users¡¯ privacy. But Google¡¯s previous social networking service, Google Buzz, outraged users by publicly disclosing their Gmail contacts. And Google¡¯s Street View cars eavesdropped on users¡¯ wireless networks. Google tells users they should accept the loss of privacy as a modern fact of life while Google zealously guards its search, ad auction, and infrastructure secrets.
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Post by jdredd on Aug 29, 2018 3:09:33 GMT -5
www.nytimes.com/2018/08/28/technology/inside-facebook-employees-political-bias.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage"SAN FRANCISCO — The post went up quietly on Facebook’s internal message board last week. Titled “We Have a Problem With Political Diversity,” it quickly took off inside the social network. “We are a political monoculture that’s intolerant of different views,” Brian Amerige, a senior Facebook engineer, wrote in the post, which was obtained by The New York Times. “We claim to welcome all perspectives, but are quick to attack — often in mobs — anyone who presents a view that appears to be in opposition to left-leaning ideology.” Since the post went up, more than 100 Facebook employees have joined Mr. Amerige to form an online group called FB’ers for Political Diversity, according to two people who viewed the group’s page and who were not authorized to speak publicly. The aim of the initiative, according to Mr. Amerige’s memo, is to create a space for ideological diversity within the company."
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Post by jdredd on Nov 23, 2022 22:17:47 GMT -5
Here’s a ancient thread from Dolphie. Now they just call them “woke”.
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Post by jdredd on Oct 30, 2023 21:33:13 GMT -5
Ok, the narrative of the Evil Corporation is a staple of movies but I always took them with a grain of salt. Then along came Elon Musk. But he is no Leftist.
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