“In its early days the Internet seem to be a counter cultural space and an anti corporate space, now is the place for corporate economic production. What the internet is now isn't what it used to be and it doesn't have to be what it turns into.” EconomicInternet Author:Ramesh Srinivasan
“You could kind of be free and expressive but you already knew when you joined the internet, you knew that you should not be a troll. You began to experience the internet through platforms that were themselves controlled by specific companies, technical instruments of those companies, like search and retrieval and ordering and classification.” KindInternetTroll Author:Ramesh Srinivasan
“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
“I think the governments need to encourage internet companies and convince them that they can be extremely profitable without necessarily spiraling out of control. Without becoming monopolist.” ThinkingInternetConvince Author:Ramesh Srinivasan
“Fake news is a product of the internet that is not transparent. Fake news can spread online because as users we have no idea where any of the content we see comes from.” InternetSpreadFakeOnlineUsers 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