[–] physicscat ago
In other words, it was all good until it helped someone get elected that they hated.
Fucking hypocrites.
[–] derram 1 point 0 points 1 point (+1|-1) ago
An Apology for the Internet — From the People Who Built It
'Harris: There was pressure from venture capital to grow really, really quickly. '
'Then there was the way Facebook was potentially conferring a significant advantage to negative campaign messages in Brexit. '
'Steve Jobs would never have gotten a job at IBM. The original internet was built by super-geeky engineers who didn’t fully understand the commercial implications of it. '
'You had one set of experiences, one set of views, that drove all of the platforms on the internet. '
'What a fucking cow that bitch is.” Everything is toxic — and that has to do with the internet itself. '
[–] Sikozen 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
I love how, no matter how many of us explain that we voted for Trump because the other candidates did not represent us, it all boils down to 'Trump won because this of this bad thing - and we need to change it!'
Trump did not win by appealing to 'Islamaphobes', Trump won because Bernie Sanders wanted tax payers to foot the bill for BS college degrees and Hillary Clinton is just a terrible person. Trump wants people to fucking work, Bernie says people don't have to work, Hillary says whatever she thinks we want her to say because she's a legacy and NEEDS to be president to get money to the wealthy people who tried to buy her campaign for her.
[–] IGiveZeroFucks 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
Ellen Pao...an architect of the internet? What alternative-universe portal did I fucking walk through?
[–] flapjack_charlie 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
I like how the gist of this article is "we thought we could use the Internet to usher in the New World Order, not destroy it!"
[–] lanre ago
Who the fuck are these people? "Ethan Zuckerman, MIT media scholar. Invented the pop-up ad." Oh, and a jew made pop-up ads, go figure.