08-17-2020, 10:17 AM
** 17-Aug-2020 World View: Big Tech
The amount of power these online services have is absolutely staggering.
Sitting in Redmond, the execs can look out over the world and imagine
one billion desktop computers in every country and every region of the
world, and the execs have control over all of those billion desktops.
This is an absolutely staggering amount of power. John D. Rockefeller
could never have dreamed of that much power. In fact, it may be that
Donald Trump doesn't have that much power.
Trevor Wrote:> I've watched parts of those hearings and it was clear to me none
> of the Congressmen had a clue about tech companies. Most of them
> have been in power for decades, long before computers and the
> internet were even a thing. They didn't grow up with him and many
> don't even use them, nor do they care, except for the campaign
> contributions they get. We're still thinking about oil and gas
> companies, big coal, titans of industry, but the world has
> changed. Big Tech has far more influence and they're not far from
> SJWs.
The amount of power these online services have is absolutely staggering.
Sitting in Redmond, the execs can look out over the world and imagine
one billion desktop computers in every country and every region of the
world, and the execs have control over all of those billion desktops.
This is an absolutely staggering amount of power. John D. Rockefeller
could never have dreamed of that much power. In fact, it may be that
Donald Trump doesn't have that much power.
