{"id":36380,"date":"2018-08-04T10:15:12","date_gmt":"2018-08-04T15:15:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=36380"},"modified":"2018-08-04T10:15:12","modified_gmt":"2018-08-04T15:15:12","slug":"u-s-tech-giants-are-too-big-too-powerful-and-now-are-running-into-serious-trouble","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=36380","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Tech Giants Are Too Big, Too Powerful and Now Are Running Into Serious Trouble"},"content":{"rendered":"
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U.S. Tech Giants Are Too Big, Too Powerful and Now Are Running Into Serious Trouble<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n
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Within Google, knowledge about Dragonfly has been restricted to just a few hundred members of the internet giant\u2019s 88,000-strong workforce, said a source with knowledge of the project. The source spoke to The Intercept on condition of anonymity, as they were not authorized to contact the media. The source said that they had moral and ethical concerns about Google\u2019s role in the censorship, which is being planned by a handful of top executives and managers at the company with no public scrutiny.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m against large companies and governments collaborating in the oppression of their people, and feel like transparency around what\u2019s being done is in the public interest,\u201d the source said, adding that they feared \u201cwhat is done in China will become a template for many other nations.\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

From The Intercept<\/em> article:\u00a0Google Plans to Launch Censored Search Engine in China, Leaked Documents Reveal<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Today\u2019s post will explain why I think the U.S. tech giants are in the early stages of destroying themselves. It will focus on two of the biggest names in the space, Facebook and Google. Both face serious issues that are only now truly coming to a head and rooted in two primary factors, size and politics.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Facebook is further along in the process of being in serious trouble, so let\u2019s start there. The social media company currently has 2.2 billion active users worldwide, which amounts to well over half of all human beings online at the moment (estimated at 3-4 billion). In other words, the company already has a tremendous share of global potential users. Since everybody already knows what Facebook is, you have to assume those who aren\u2019t using it (like me), aren\u2019t using it for a reason.<\/p>\n

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