It's a REAL danger. And somehow it must be controlled.
It makes me wonder why some enterprising conservative doesn't or hasn't already started up a social media site himself/herself.
There is a social media alternative called GAB. Of course Free Republic continues to be the ultimate social meda site for conservatives. Where else can you get so much conservative news and commentary by so many informed conservative souls? We take it for granted . It’s amazing that Jim manages somehow to keep it going with so little support from the people who use it.
“At this point, a handful of companies enjoy power that famed publisher William Randolph Hearst, at the height of yellow journalism, could never have imagined.”
Progressive Democrat Randolph Hearst has taken a back seat to today’s Yellow Journalists who are currently setting new heights for Yellow Journalism around the world under the newly coined moniker Fake News.
Everyday MSN, AOL plus the other main sites have the same fake news headline items posted.
...”It’s a REAL danger. And somehow it must be controlled.”...
Articles are now being written about a pervasive loneliness which people are beginning to suffer and about a 33% rise in depression. Just today I read that Millenials are in more trouble than the Boomer generation was in respect to youthful energy for the future. Social media is the consequence of an already disconnected society which is the consequence of the increasing mobility of the population. People are just not made to leave home and family to live among strangers and, in some cases, to lead nomadic lives, without suffering for it. FB seemed like a way to reconnect, but we now know that the unseen power of that technology could hold the seed of a tyrannical control that would bring horrible suffering to all of us. Buy Vance Packard’s old books and read. He told us back then what was happening to the country in the wake of mobility, and he was prophetic. However, he had no clue how bad it would get with big tech.
Is there anyone in Silicone Valley who is pro-American, or are they all anti-American??
Why not?
Inertia and profitability.
One step would be to require outfits like Google and Facebook to announce their bias algorithms or censorship decisions publicly and to require their sign ups to check a box showing that they know they are available for inspection. It’s a matter of basic honesty — users have a right to know when their searches are rigged.
Just take a look at all the pro-Trump pages from Fbook that have been banned, or the leftist news feeds that get pushed to you in Google (Goolag) or any other app.
He is not wrong.
Let’s not be hoisted on the petard of our own virtue by defending their rights to do this under principles of capitalism.
We need to swallow hard, then regulate the bejeezus out of them.
“threat to American Democracy?”
No, ‘Ted’ (real name Rafael Cruz Jr.) American democracy is strong and healthy.
The rejection of you, YEB? and HRC prove that.
Go peddle your censorship scheme in Canada, you are not wanted here.
So much Sponsored crap on Facebook and Twitter, the posts I want to see from friends and family have trouble coming through. Facebook keeps imposing Your Post From 2015, today it was done twice in five minutes of scrolling, two old posts from past years.