Happy days are here again!
The skies above are clear again!
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| Victor Davis Hanson: Where Are the Left's Modern Muckrakers? |
| 2018-03-30 |
| In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, there was an epic fight of so-called muckrakers ‐ journalists and novelists such as Frank Norris, Upton Sinclair, Lincoln Steffens, and Ida Tarbell, along with trust-busting politicians like Teddy Roosevelt ‐ against rail, steel, and oil monopolies. Whatever one thought of their sensationalism and often hard-left socialist agendas, they at least brought public attention to price fixing, product liabilities, monopolies, and the buying of politicians. No such progressive zealotry exists today in Silicon Valley and its affiliated tech spin-offs. And the result is a Roman gladiatorial spectacle with no laws in the arena. In the last two elections, Facebook has sold its user data to Democratic and, apparently more controversially, Republican campaign affiliates. Google, Twitter, and Facebook have often been accused of censoring users’ expression according to their own political tastes. Civil libertarians have accused social-media and Internet giants of violating rights of privacy, by monitoring the shopping, travel, eating, and entertainment habits of their customers to the extent that they know where and when Americans travel or communicate with one another. |
| Posted by:746 |
| #9 What is needed is some sort of bipartisan national commission that might dispassionately and in disinterested fashion offer guidelines to legislators... Well, VDH, you can dream can't you? |
| Posted by: Abu Uluque 2018-03-30 11:18 |
| #8 As soon as I found out that Google was giving data to the Zero campaign for free, I quit using Google. I have ceased using Facebook (the only reason I have a facebook page is because a headhunter recommended it). I have minimized my LinkedIn profile also. I've gone to eliminating location indicators on my phone for navigation purposes and I refuse to use any of the App Stores. I do not buy anything on line except office supplies...I avoid Amazon, even with their extremely low prices...like the plague. Don't trust any of them. |
| Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom 2018-03-30 11:14 |
| #7 No, there he is on the far right. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2018-03-30 11:02 |
| #6 Zuck took the picture. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2018-03-30 11:00 |
| #5 Interesting that Gates and Bezos are missing. |
| Posted by: KBK 2018-03-30 10:48 |
| #4 Well, you can always hope. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2018-03-30 08:53 |
| #3 Interesting that there was enough room at the table for Larry Ellison and his massive ego. |
| Posted by: Raj 2018-03-30 08:21 |
| #2 The best improvement to that picture would be the deadly food poisoning accident resulting in the death of all present. |
| Posted by: Injun Bucket8891 2018-03-30 00:50 |
| #1 Where's that image - oh yes: Happy days are here again! The skies above are clear again! |
| Posted by: KBK 2018-03-30 00:23 |