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This applies to so many other things: cosmetics, food, drugs, guns, etc. And now they’re lobbying to influence other countries too (UK, Brazil, etc). Incredible amount of greed and lack of ethics.

The government cannot afford paying someone who actually understands computers. That someone would already be in Silicon Valley, not wanting to work for the government. Funny how things work

This. You nailed it

The society we live in. Damn it, we just can’t agree on such no-brainers

I think they’re going to end up flat like Twitter and Snapchat in 2 years at most. Smart to IPO now though.

Lol, so they show you ads to buy stuff on an app you literally open to buy stuff? This is a joke.

As a caveat, we only see the winners, so this perspective is biased. But sure, we have casinos as well, so I guess we totally should allow all people to invest in startups.

Never heard about Mastodon, it’d have been nice if the article explained what it is. Is this yet another startup promising they won’t become a merciless corporation? Great value prop, lol

That’s how ended up with Comcast...

Apple is pretty much saying “I own all the rails and it’s ok for me to compete with the transport companies that use them”. This might not be ok in EU, but US doesn’t give a sh*t. No matter how much developers, songwriters, consumers, etc get screwed by some greedy corporations. $1000 is not enough for a phone, we still need to pay 30% of all the apps we’re using... It’s a crazy world.

Is it really surprising that the upper class is isolating itself from the rest, as the gap gets bigger and bigger in time? That happens in all areas of life, school included. The admission system of many universities just makes this very easy.

I want to see all journalists at least mentioning this whataboutism, if they really want to solve a problem. They’re just gaining traction and views on Facebook’s negative momentum, and they don’t even mention the bigger elephants in the room (such as google analytics, for instance).

While at it, should we put Segment, Mixpanel, Optimizely, etc. on the list? I’m not saying they’re good or bad in terms of data tracking, I’m just saying they should be in the same bucket. Tech companies harvest data to improve their businesses...

Why is Google never brought up in these? Isn’t Facebook pixel similar to Google Analytics?

There’s nothing new about this. It’s like having a co-founder in a relatively low risk small business. The fact that we need a co-founder to aford a shelter says a lot about where our society is heading and the simple presence of such articles should worry us.

And Google tracks people on ALL websites, without any consent. When are we talking about that?