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Silicon Valley Dirtbags Lie Again, Congress Meekly Looks On
« on: November 01, 2020, 03:45:57 pm »
Silicon Valley Dirtbags Lie Again, Congress Meekly Looks On

How does a democratic society choose to engage with corporations that are interfering with the social order?

By Rachel Bovard
October 31, 2020

After a series of mishaps involving muted senators, virtual cross-talk, and “connectivity issues” befuddling one of the world’s most tech-savvy men, the CEOs of Facebook, Twitter, and Google appeared before the Senate Commerce Committee on Wednesday for what has now become a performative ritual: senators of both parties yell about different aspects of social media, the tech giants respond with bland, vague, noncommittal statements. And nothing substantive happens.

This is exactly where the Senate Commerce Committee found itself on Wednesday, when Big Tech was confronted with a host of critics and without any defenders—but ultimately very little in the way of committed follow-up from legislators.

Perhaps the most notable item in the hearing was the performance of Twitter’s deeply weird CEO, Jack Dorsey, who rolled onto his screen in a Rasputin-length beard and an affectation suggesting he was coming down from a 36-hour bender. (Or, as they call it in Silicon Valley, a “vision quest.”)

Twitter was indisputably in the hot seat for Republicans over the company’s decision to block the distribution of the New York Post’s documented and well-sourced story regarding the business entanglements of both Joe Biden and his son, Hunter, with Communist China. (Facebook also limited the circulation of the story.)

At the time of the hearing, the New York Post story could only be shared by certain accounts, and the Post’s Twitter account remained locked.

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Re: Silicon Valley Dirtbags Lie Again, Congress Meekly Looks On
« Reply #1 on: November 01, 2020, 05:52:12 pm »
Is anyone really surprised this is still happening?

I suspect things might start to change if Trump is re-elected. There is NOTHING the typical congresscritter senses more quickly or clearly than a change in the wind that might affect his or her re-election chances.
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Re: Silicon Valley Dirtbags Lie Again, Congress Meekly Looks On
« Reply #2 on: December 29, 2020, 07:22:00 pm »
Speaking of dirtbags ...
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This was Google’s code name for its ‘unlawful agreement’ with Facebook
By Nicolas Vega
December 29, 2020 | 2:16pm

New details have emerged about the deal Google and Facebook allegedly worked out to rig the lucrative online advertising market.

The two tech titans dubbed their contract “Jedi Blue,” according to an unredacted version of the blockbuster Texas suit launched against the companies and obtained by the Wall Street Journal.

The lawsuit, filed earlier this month, says the code name was “a twist on a character name from Star Wars,” suggesting it might be tied to Aayla Secura, a blue-colored Jedi.

Google’s “unlawful agreement” with Facebook was allegedly hatched in return for the Mark Zuckerberg-led company refusing to embrace an ad-sales method called header bidding, which posed a threat to Google’s iron grip on the digital advertising marketplace.  ...
Story at NY Post
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