Posted on 04/09/2023 7:34:07 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Big Tech has a great big dream of destroying the internet. And it’s mostly a reality.
The vision of the internet was an open universe while Big Tech’s vision is the internet reduced to the feed on a few proprietary apps preloaded on your locked phone. Trying to censor the internet of the 90s or the 00s was a laughable proposition, but censoring today’s internet is laughably easy. Want to eliminate a site from the internet? Just wipe it from Google, ban a point of view from Facebook, a book from Amazon, or a video from YouTube. It’s still possible to browse a site off the Big Tech reservation, for now, at least until your browser goes away.
Then content will be limited to the permitted apps on Google and Apple’s proprietary app stores. But Big Tech has even more ambitious plans to replace the internet with itself.
Big Tech has dramatically simplified the user experience off the internet. It did so by moving users from ‘pulling’ content by browsing the internet to ‘pushing’ content at them by displaying a feed. When your computer or phone shows you a news feed you never wanted, that’s ‘pushing’. Big Tech loved pushing, but people resisted it until the arrival of social media reduced everyone to scrolling down a feed selected by secret algorithms and pushed through a proprietary app. roved sites heavily skewed leftward that cover the general topic.
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Pretty much why FR is my sole source for news.
Ditto
And as far as International News, I find maybe the most objective sources of news are actually from India, especially what’s happening in Ukraine, they actually have good balance.
I encounter fewer appropriate places to have to apologize for being a Luddite.
Lucianne is pretty great, too.
I have not messed with the ai much.
But it is not close to smart.
It is not AI. I could tell within two answers what it was.
Someday Eliza will grow up?
If you really think about it, these tech companies could be sued for conspiring to deprive Americans of their constitutional rights to free speech etc. Some of these companies are virtual monopolies.
“news feed”
ads/news feed
~”I feel like a mushroom because I’m constantly fed manure.”
The Constitution?!?!? Bwahahahaha! You mean that piece of paper written by a bunch of dead white guys?
Trust me, our enemies don’t give a flip about the Constitution, they can do whatever they want. Who is going to stop them?
IMO advertisers greatly overestimate the value of Internet advertising.
The real reason TikTok is under fire is because it is undercutting the ad biz of Big Tech.
Walmart and Amazon might do ~$600 billion in revenue annually each.
Google revenue in 2022 was over $250 billion.
agreed. I use adblockers for starters and i just view internet ads as spam.
“Who is going to stop them?”
It only took ~30,000 Taliban to send the US military packing.
The EU has plans for Big Tech.
Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.
-John Adams
Maybe an “AI FREE” disclaimer will become popular.
Truth.
ChatGPT has hallucinations. It’s a designed-in feature.
https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/chatgpt-is-a-blurry-jpeg-of-the-web
The amount of censorship that goes on on the internet right now is incredible. I’ve tried to look up products I know to be available in other countries because I was going to be in that country in a few days and could not find a reference to them at all from the U.S. For example, before a recent trip to Sydney Australia I tried to look up “price of XXX in Australia” and I can’t call up anything about the product. Even turning on my VPN doesn’t fix it, they know you’re American so they’ll only show you U.S. references. If they can do that then it’s pretty much unlimited the information they can now censor. We’re only shown what we’re allowed to see today.
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