...make Facebook a utility? Thoughts from tech folks? https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/aug/30/nationalise-google-facebook-amazon-data-monopoly-platform-public-interest
Is there an example outside of the military of an efficient service the government delivers?
Liberals going to liberal. Just can’t stop trying to destroy America and institute socialism. They are private companies and it’s users voluntarily give them endless personal data. Stop using them and close accounts. Prob solved.
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Once you nationalized them (someone forgot these are gigantic MULTY Nationals, but whatever) Whose gonna pay for all the infrastructure they maintain? Whose going to push for innovation, the Government?!?! It might happen, governments are still powerful enough to pull it off, but that will be the end of these companies as useful to the users, and the beginning of police states, who know the citizens better than they know themselves. Big Brother will be the baby brother compared to what these governments will become. Scary is an understatement! Who would you trust with your private files? The government (NSA, IRS, social security, politicians!)? Or Google. I know FB has fucked a lot, and frankly I got offers and the company seems way to chaotic for me - I still prefer them holding my data than any politician or law enforcement agency....
Yes the government has never pushed for innovation, like the internet itself 🙄
Amazon is getting paid tens of millions to share that your info with the government. And it’s spending tens of millions on lobbying to make sure you can’t vote against it. Corporate tyranny is still tyranny.
Instead; we should have #AmazonNation
lmao socialists are so dumb
This article apparently is predicated on the notion that Facebook et al exist to serve the public good. They do not. They exist to benefit their shareholders.
Yes, I think the article is asking if this (being run for shareholders) does more harm than good since the “use” people have for something like Facebook is the same as a public bulletin board, but the use value for the shareholders is getting people addicted so their information and social interactions can be monetized.
I think that Facebook actually make most of their money from showing users ads, rather than by operating as some ghastly dystopian surveillance/propaganda agency.