{"id":13976,"date":"2019-12-08T13:38:01","date_gmt":"2019-12-08T17:38:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/?p=13976"},"modified":"2019-12-08T13:38:04","modified_gmt":"2019-12-08T17:38:04","slug":"why-big-tech-companies-cant-stop-being-evil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/why-big-tech-companies-cant-stop-being-evil\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Big Tech Companies Can\u2019t Stop Being \u2018Evil\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Rana Foroohar’s new book, ‘Don’t Be Evil,’ paints an alarming portrait of Silicon Valley tech companies that need to be reined in before they start to affect our lives in even more insidious ways. <\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The FEDERALIST<\/strong>, by John Thomas<\/a> — December 6, 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In 1998, in an academic paper titled \u201cThe Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine,\u201d Stanford University students Larry Page and Sergey Brin described how their project, which they had named Google, worked. Until Page and Brin published, their work had been shrouded in secrecy, much to the consternation of the Stanford faculty. However, their mentor was eventually able to convince Page and Brin to publish some of their work\u2014it was an academic project, after all\u2014and the two relented.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the paper, Page and Brin outlined how search could be monetized\u2014via advertising\u2014and noted the danger of such a funding model, writing, \u201cThe goals of the advertising business model do not always correspond to providing quality search to users.\u201d Indeed, such a model lead to what the two labeled \u201csearch engine bias\u201d a phenomenon they identified as \u201cparticularly insidious.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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View the complete article including image and links at:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2019\/12\/06\/why-big-tech-companies-cant-stop-being-evil\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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