{"id":36495,"date":"2018-08-07T06:55:04","date_gmt":"2018-08-07T11:55:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=36495"},"modified":"2018-08-07T06:55:04","modified_gmt":"2018-08-07T11:55:04","slug":"stop-complaining-and-just-delete-facebook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=36495","title":{"rendered":"Stop Complaining and Just Delete Facebook"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Stop Complaining and Just Delete Facebook<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n
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I wrote just one post last week<\/a><\/strong> and it centered around the dangers posed to society by U.S. tech giants. I specifically called out Facebook, pointing out how company executives are currently groveling to politicians in order to prevent legislation that might deem it a monopoly and curtail its power.<\/p>\n

I explained how U.S. politicians prefer to use the power and reach of tech giants for their own ends rather than take them down a notch. Politicians aren\u2019t at all concerned about the outsized influence of centralized tech behemoths engineering society using secret algorithms, they just want to be in control of how this power is abused.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, today\u2019s biggest news is the uniform move by three U.S. tech giants to de-platform Alex Jones and his Infowars website. The main companies involved are Apple, Facebook and Google (via YouTube), as reported in The Guardian<\/em><\/a>:<\/p>\n

All but one of the major content platforms have banned the American conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, as the companies raced to act in the wake of Apple\u2019s decision to remove five podcasts by Jones and his Infowars website.<\/em><\/p>\n

Facebook unpublished four pages run by Jones for \u201crepeated violations of community standards\u201d, the company said on Monday. YouTube terminated Jones\u2019s account over him repeatedly appearing in videos despite being subject to a 90-day ban from the website, and Spotify removed the entirety of one of Jones\u2019s podcasts for \u201chate content\u201d\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n

Facebook\u2019s and YouTube\u2019s enforcement action against Jones came hours after Apple<\/a> removed Jones from its podcast directory. The timing of Facebook\u2019s announcement was unusual, with the company confirming the ban at 3am local time.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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