Utah Republican Orrin Hatch, elected to the Senate more than seven years before Zuckerberg was born, didn't seem to realize that Facebook ran ads on its site.
As University of Illinois professor Robert W. McChesney mentioned in an email exchange with RCP, the Internet itself was created by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency - and Silicon Valley and private-sector tech companies elsewhere have "Extremely lucrative" relationships with U.S. military and intelligence agencies.
"Governments of the Industrial World, you weary giants of flesh and steel, I come from Cyberspace, the new home of Mind. On behalf of the future, I ask you of the past to leave us alone. You are not welcome among us. You have no sovereignty where we gather. We have no elected government, nor are we likely to have one, so I address you with no greater authority than that with which liberty itself always speaks. I declare the global social space we are building to be naturally independent of the tyrannies you seek to impose on us. You have no moral right to rule us nor do you possess any methods of enforcement we have true reason to fear."
Sen. Lindsey Graham, for one, walked Zuckerberg through his paces Tuesday, demonstrating that in any way that matters to consumers, Facebook is a monopoly.
"Contrary to Mr. Zuckerberg's assertion, Facebook is a virtual monopoly," Graham added, "And monopolies need to be regulated."
It's not Facebook's size that is the problem, it's its willy-nilly habit of sharing information - and letting its data be misused or ripped off - problems that are standard procedure in the tech industry and which wouldn't go away if Facebook were broken into pieces.
Facebook began, as Zuckerberg reminded the senators Tuesday, on a college campus.
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2018/04/12/high_tech_and_government_a_culture_clash.html
As University of Illinois professor Robert W. McChesney mentioned in an email exchange with RCP, the Internet itself was created by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency - and Silicon Valley and private-sector tech companies elsewhere have "Extremely lucrative" relationships with U.S. military and intelligence agencies.
"Governments of the Industrial World, you weary giants of flesh and steel, I come from Cyberspace, the new home of Mind. On behalf of the future, I ask you of the past to leave us alone. You are not welcome among us. You have no sovereignty where we gather. We have no elected government, nor are we likely to have one, so I address you with no greater authority than that with which liberty itself always speaks. I declare the global social space we are building to be naturally independent of the tyrannies you seek to impose on us. You have no moral right to rule us nor do you possess any methods of enforcement we have true reason to fear."
Sen. Lindsey Graham, for one, walked Zuckerberg through his paces Tuesday, demonstrating that in any way that matters to consumers, Facebook is a monopoly.
"Contrary to Mr. Zuckerberg's assertion, Facebook is a virtual monopoly," Graham added, "And monopolies need to be regulated."
It's not Facebook's size that is the problem, it's its willy-nilly habit of sharing information - and letting its data be misused or ripped off - problems that are standard procedure in the tech industry and which wouldn't go away if Facebook were broken into pieces.
Facebook began, as Zuckerberg reminded the senators Tuesday, on a college campus.
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2018/04/12/high_tech_and_government_a_culture_clash.html
No comments:
Post a Comment