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"tech blogger" John M. Pientka related by chance to FBI S.A. Joey M. Pientka III who's married to Melissa Pientka, attorney @ Facebook's litigation firm?
>https://www.jmpientka.com/2018/04/17/the-tech-titans-are-crushing-our-freedoms-our-democracy-our-very-humanity-ohget-over-it/
by John Pientka | Apr 17, 2018 | Cloud Marketplace, Compliance, Consumerization of IT, Digital Fluency, The Future of IT |
Well the Zuckmeister has done his dance in front of Congress. Guess what? Nothing is going to happen, nothing ever does. Stop sweating it. History shows you’ll be fine.
Zuck confirmed that most of our representatives don’t have a clue about how the internet or social networks work.
Reminds me of the joke about why we had a national speed limit of 55 mph after the oil crises. Punch line: that’s the average IQ of Congress. I guess we just stumbled upon their digital IQ as well.
Before you panic, step back and take the long view. Technology has been following this pattern of market power concentration with government trying to catch up and mostly failing for a long time. We are all still here and mostly for the better.
But as we swung into the 1990’s and the 21st century the roller coaster has really started to run. Boom! Google, Amazon (especially AWS), Facebook, and Twitter are all new phenomena based upon the Internet. And, they became de facto monopolies through the network effect.
But instead of hurting consumers by stifling competition their services were “free” or at unheard of low prices.