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Media coverage of Big Tech has taken a "whistledrowning" approach to the sector's category killers...
which isn't to say that $aapl $googl $fb $amzn et al are guileless, but, rather, the media has been a pack of dogs with (laughably) wrong bones... https://twitter.com/AnthPB/status/1347744647737696256?s=19
Media coverage of Big Tech has taken a "whistledrowning" approach to the sector's category killers...
which isn't to say that $aapl $googl $fb $amzn et al are guileless, but, rather, the media has been a pack of dogs with (laughably) wrong bones... https://twitter.com/AnthPB/status/1347744647737696256?s=19
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5 to 7 years hence, most either know they're wrong (sunk cost fallacy) or know too little (halo effect) to keep beating this drum...
The whole "whistledrowning" approach is like a DDoS attack: The volume and repetition of misinformation has a number of strategic effects...
5 to 7 years hence, most either know they're wrong (sunk cost fallacy) or know too little (halo effect) to keep beating this drum...
The whole "whistledrowning" approach is like a DDoS attack: The volume and repetition of misinformation has a number of strategic effects...
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... including distracting Big Tech cos; consuming their resources; or shifting the public sentiment/goodwill
... which is a political playbook (gone vigilante) colored by Microsoft's DOJ settlement a generation ago
$msft #antitrust #monopoly
... including distracting Big Tech cos; consuming their resources; or shifting the public sentiment/goodwill
... which is a political playbook (gone vigilante) colored by Microsoft's DOJ settlement a generation ago
$msft #antitrust #monopoly
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and the coverage is all problems, zero solutions – were any of it interested in solutions, they'd see the error in their ways...
and the coverage is all problems, zero solutions – were any of it interested in solutions, they'd see the error in their ways...
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I mention this because it's spilled into Twitter Spaces and Clubhouse rooms, where the propagators are flaunting it even more brazenly with far less of a check or balance...
I mention this because it's spilled into Twitter Spaces and Clubhouse rooms, where the propagators are flaunting it even more brazenly with far less of a check or balance...
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... and, I mean, they can do their thang, whistledrown Big Tech until the cows come home, #1A all the way! (even though most of the propagators only support free speech when it's their own, per their own revealed preference
)
... and, I mean, they can do their thang, whistledrown Big Tech until the cows come home, #1A all the way! (even though most of the propagators only support free speech when it's their own, per their own revealed preference
)
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... but this thread of mine isn't futile; it's counter-speech:
"If there be time to expose through discussion the falsehood and fallacies, to avert the evil by the processes of education, the remedy to be applied is more speech, not enforced silence."
... but this thread of mine isn't futile; it's counter-speech:
"If there be time to expose through discussion the falsehood and fallacies, to avert the evil by the processes of education, the remedy to be applied is more speech, not enforced silence."
