in a syllabus from June 2017, The Supreme Court of the USA underlines the importance of the internet in relation to the first amendment to the US constitution. The internet's forums are decribed as "what for many are the principal sources for knowing current events, checking ads for employment, speaking and listening in the modern public square, and otherwise exploring the vast realms of human thought and knowledge."
Online social interactions are no substitute for the real thing. Holly Shakia och Nicholas Christakis; se även Anna Rotkirchs kolumn Facebook gör dig olycklig , Hbl 13.10.2017
Christian Sandvig, blog "multicast the Internets, technology, and policy" June 26th, 2014 " You likely didn’t know that your “like” clicks are merrily producing ads on your friends pages and in your name because you cannot see them. These “stories” do not appear on your news feed and cannot be individually deleted" ..." Facebook’s business model is to produce attention for advertisers, not to help you — silly rabbit." Det generella problemet är att det finns många sätt på vilka algoritmer fungerar som blandningsventiler mellan saker som lätt kan värderas med pengar (som annonser) och saker som inte kan. Och denna typ av blandning är ett normativt problem (vad ska vi göra) och inte ett tekniskt problem (hur gör vi det).
Online giants Yelp, Facebook, Google and Microsoft all have representatives on ALEC’s technology task force, the Daily Beast reported Friday. Via the Beast:
Brad Burnham Jun 10, 2010 "Once you start thinking about large web platforms as governments, the logical question is what kind of government are they. One thing is for sure - none of these platforms are democracies. They are oligarchies controlled by founders, investors or shareholders. That may not be at all bad. As long as citizens (users) can move freely from one government to another with little switching cost, there is no reason to burden these polities with the inherent inefficiencies of popular democracy. But that does put a special premium on emigration policies and property rights. Do I own my data, can I export it freely? It also suggests that large networks that have strong network effects may someday need other incentives to act in the best interests of their citizens."
"In the end, the big networks on the web will all have to find a balance between state power and private initiative."
"The White House intellectual property adviser Colleen V. Chien noted in 2012 that Google and Apple were spending more money acquiring patents (not to mention litigating them) than on doing research and development."
Social networking giant Facebook has added 13 million users in six months to take its user base to 125 million in India, its second-biggest market globally.
“In India, Facebook has 125 million average users (MAU), while the number of mobile MAUs stands at 114 million. On a daily basis, 59 million users in India are accessing Facebook and 53 million are accessing us from their mobile phones,” Facebook head of Products (Facebook Lite) Vijay Shankar told PTI.
Talking about the Facebook Lite app, announced earlier this month, he said the product has been “built ground up for markets like India” where internet speeds are slow.
Facebook Lite will feature all core functions of the standard app like news feed, messaging, photos, links and notifications among others but does not show videos on the news feed.
Mark Zuckerberg is feeling the force of critics who believe his effort to provide Indians with free access to a limited number of internet services hurts India's democracy and violates net neutrality.
Finian Cunningham RT 18 Oct, 2017
Facebook, the world’s top social media platform, is reportedly seeking to hire hundreds of employees with US national security clearance licenses.
As Rafael Rivero put it to me, “Facebook is where it’s all happening.”
"Publishers took note of what worked on Facebook and adjusted accordingly"
"A company that can claim nearly every internet-using adult as a user is less a partner than a context — a self-contained marketplace to which you have been granted access but which functions according to rules and incentives that you cannot control."