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Posted on 10/05/2015 10:08:47 PM PDT by Swordmaker
Apple and Facebook are asserting themselves as gatekeepers of necessary information to the public. Can we trust them?
We're trying to have a democracy here, and ideally an informed one.
Nowadays, however, almost everyone is too distracted with their smartphones to muster the attention span to put up with reading a newspaper or news magazine delivered by a publisher, or even watching TV news.
Instead, we get news through apps and on social networks. The biggest source of apps in the U.S. and the biggest social network are Apple's App Store and Facebook, respectively.
This trend transfers the job of gatekeeper of what political information reaches the public from publications, editors or news directors to the likes of Apple and Facebook -- the companies that choose, in Apple's case, which apps are allowed and which are banned or, in Facebook's case, which news stories or sources are favored by its secret algorithms.
What that means -- and there's no gentle way to put this, so I'm just going to say it -- is that the people in charge of what voters and citizens know are people motivated by selling tiny computers with "selfie cameras" or ads for tiny computers with "selfie cameras" (Samsung is currently the biggest advertiser on Facebook).
(Excerpt) Read more at computerworld.com ...
First thing you hear after a shooting or frankly any kind of social event was what was posted on that Facebook page.
The MSM, law enfircement zero in on Face book.
Ban face book.
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I kinda trust Apple more than Google when it comes to privacy and encryption.
Facebook and Google, on the other hand are companies I do not trust whatsoever. They are CIA/FBI/NSA citizen data collection schemes.
The gods n monsters who run both, are arrogant elitist punks, who have absolutely no regard for your privacy, or right to view or post the unbridled truth.
Company founders in Lucifer’s own image.
Try to remove a Facebook account, cannot be done.
“We’re trying to have a democracy here”
NO, we’re not.
A bit old. . . but I wouldn't put it past them in the future. . . nor past Apple with its present management, unfortunately.
I can tell you that the fabulously well-endowed private school I substitute teach at in my retirement (20 years in a Catholic high school, and not at that school) has brought in both Common Core and Mac computers for the entire student body, and in the main, predicated the entire curriculum on the computer. And I can tell you that the programs lead students where they are intended to go: a “harmonic convergence” of Leftist worldview.
There is the ultimate problem. . . the ultimate misunderstanding and why these people think that the Bill of Rights is just merely a list of suggestions that can be tossed in the trash when the people decide those suggested behaviors are no longer convenient.
Social media is good for direct democracy. It’s ability to reach beyond the virtual world into the real word with its lynch mobs and shut down businesses, get people fired and force them into hiding is unparalleled in media.
Synergy.
What could be a more perfect pairing?
It's the educational software, not the Mac. Up until it was possible to search the internet for anything, every Mac had the US Constitution, the Declaration of Independence, and the Gettysburg Address on it when it was sold. Steve Jobs insisted on it. Macs can use conservative software as well as "Common Crap" software.
WOW, that's right. I'd forgotten about that feature.
Damn, I miss Steve Jobs. Asshole or not personally, he had some mighty fine attitudes regarding America, and he acted on them.
I would add Google to this list. They have kicked off political sites websites they don’t like from Blogspot and and made others sit behind the same warning one finds for pornography. Other sites have been de-listed by google, taking them off their search engine. Finally, some sites are not posting properly of Google Plus.
Apple, Google, and Facebook are all leftist companies. And all support comprehensive amnesty. They have an interest in keeping the facts out the hands of the American public.
Currently, if you use Google search with the site:freerepublic.com modifier to try to find something here, you get a malware warning about Free Republic from Google, and the links mostly don’t bring you here, they give you the linked-to link from the top of the article. So you get taken to NYTimes.com or whatever, and don’t get the FR page and comments, which of course are often more valuable than the source article.
Try it and see if you get that as well.
WJR 760 AM radio in Detroit reported yesterday that worker activity on social media websites has made it more difficult for the UAW and Fiat-Chrysler to reach an agreement on a new contract.
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