“Google and Facebook extend internet access across the world, but the access is generally speaking to an internet that is focused on the advertisers to those sites.” WorldInternetFocusedGoogle Author:Ramesh Srinivasan
“We are getting close to the point where as every platform of tech that has any level of scale gets bought by either Google or Facebook or sometimes Microsoft. We are getting to the point where we see some oligopoly in terms of behavior online, and that it's really problematic because the oligopolies are completely non transparent, they are terrible in terms of labor and economic equality and they support systems of surveillance. It can create a world where we are all placed in bubbles, where the systems themselves can be manipulated by people who don't have our best interests in mind.” PeopleWorldMindSometimesTermInterestSupportEconomicTerribleBehaviorLaborOnlineBubblesGoogle Author:Ramesh Srinivasan
“We are at a moment that some of the Silicon Valley companies are feeling the pressure. These days the founder of Twitter apologized that his company promoted some of the things that elected Donald Trump. You don't see that much of these apologizing from Google. From Mark Zuckerberg you are hearing a little bit more of it, but he is a little more "Oh, well, this is what happens because the internet scaled up and everybody has fake news; oh, we are gonna build a better technology".” MomentsFeelingsTechnologyInternetFakeFoundersGoogleApologizingOh Well Author:Ramesh Srinivasan
