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Re:Big Tech as the New Big Tobacco by troupo on Friday July 21, 2023 @04:59PM (#36819653)
> big tech is driving many of the technological advancements that have brought a new era of economic prosperity and growth to the world.

Companies that actually do that are rarely big tech. And Big Tech as term colloquially refers to Facebook, Google etc.

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Re:Big Tech as the New Big Tobacco by lotsofpulp on Friday July 21, 2023 @05:41PM (#36820232)
There are tons of educational videos on YouTube. And maybe Facebook too, or connections being made there, I don’t use it though.

Either way, I have learned how to do many things from watching instructional YouTube videos, and it does not seem anyone else has been able to make the economics work like Google has.

Sure, there’s bad too along with the good, and maybe the bad outweighs the good, although I would need convincing that is true.

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