Two Sets of Rules 0
Writing at The Observer, Evgeny Morozov explores self-serving double standards of tech titans who would have you run naked through the internet while, secluded behind high walls with turrets and towers, they watch you cavort.
Here’s just a couple of examples; follow the link for much, much more.
They are digital carrion crows; under cover of providing a “service,” they pluck the bodies of their users and sell them for profit.*
In their world, openness is for others, a commodity to mined and traded.
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*As the regards the “services” they provide, I would argue that Google’s search is far more valuable and useful to those who use it–it is an actual “service”–than, say, Facebook’s or Instagram’s nattering nurseries of narcissism.
