3352

I was assured that no one could compete with the tech giants because they had invincible monopolies.

3354

What was Netflix’s DVD rental market share compared to Blockbuster in 1999?

3355

In going to post something to my MySpace page about how dominant social media platforms are eternal.

3356

Make sure to post of Friendster and make a Vine about it.

3357

Do any of those make a profit yet?

3358

Define profit.

3359

You know, make more money than they spend, not counting investor funding.

3360

Dollars are SO last millennium. You think the Capitol is just gonna storm itself?

3362

https://www.facebook.com/help/212802592074644

If you want to download a copy of your information from Facebook, you can use the Download Your Information tool.

To download a copy of your Facebook data:

  1. Click in the top right of Facebook.

  2. Select Settings & Privacy , then click Settings .

  3. In the left column, click Your Facebook Information .

  4. Next to Download Your Information , click View .

  5. To add or remove categories of data from your request, click the boxes on the right side of Facebook.

  6. Select other options, including:

  • The format of your download request.

  • The quality of photos, videos and other media.

  • A specific date range of information. If you don’t select a date range, you’ll request all the information for the categories you’ve selected.

  1. Click Create File to confirm the download request.
3363

Yes, FB should have an account option to provide you a copy of all your account data. It’s in you’re account settings somewhere, a process kicks off, takes a day or so and then you get a link to download a zipped copy of your data.

Ah, here:
https://en-gb.facebook.com/help/212802592074644

EDIT - Dagnabit, ninja’d!

3364

Why do we have to engage with anyone on a specific social network? You can engage with your coworkers and neighbors in person, if you want to. I still don’t understand why it’s Twitter’s responsibility to give everyone a platform. They have Parler. They have Gab. Hell, the alt-right has both MeWe and the original Facebook.

We post on QT3 but if we were banned for violating the social norms of the community we wouldn’t have a case either.

If you want to preach the liberal gospel on Gab, no one is stopping you. And if they don’t want to hear it and ban you, what of it?

3365

My current electricity provider chased me up about a bill yesterday (I thought it was all direct debit, it wasn’t, hence the missed payment. It is direct debit now) and in the conversation it transpired that they can’t cut off my electricity until I owe a tonne of money and they go to court, a bit like evicting a tenant.

I assume something similar occurs with water etc, so the actual essentials of life.

I don’t think social media is one of those.

3366
3367
3368

Shameful.

3369

It’s a beginning.

3370

First judge says that Amazon can’t be forced to keep Parler online.

My gut tells me there will be no appeal because the people running Parler don’t seem all that interested in making heroic efforts. Plus the whole Russia thing.

3371

Is anyone following the law that the Australian government is considering to force Google and Facebook to pay Australian media companies for the journalism that is shared on their sites?

Here is a good explainer:

Well, as you can expect the tech giants are against it.

Facebook awhile ago threatened to pull news from facebook (which might be a net positive):

Trump pressured us to drop it (not sure about Biden but I am sure he has taken alot of tech money so I don’t have high hopes):

And now Google has given us an ultimatum that if the bill is passed Google is likely to take Google Search from all Australians:

Being a youtube ‘creator’, I have gotten constant spam for months from Google that if the law is passed us youtube channel people will lose alot.

Frankly, I find the whole thing disturbing and I am not sure if the tech giants realise that such overt attempts to control a country’s government (at least a developed one) just alienates the majority of your users.

This also isn’t the first time that the Australian government took on a large international industry:

3372

Go get 'em.

Google and Facebook have made trillions as the gatekeepers who get to serve ads when a commodity user is searching for who cares information. TRILLIONS. While the actual outlets have been scraping to pay rent, and the literal forces of evil have invented entire “news organizations” to generate content for pennies that is nonetheless programatically better optimized to rank on their engines.

They are as culpable – more – than Murdoch and his necrotic fucking empire. Fuck them all, the cowards.

Go get 'em.

3373

Didn’t they just remove Google News from Spain and France when similar laws passed there? And if they have to link Murdoch “news” (or anybody else’s to some extent) higher, who wins, exactly?
But, as Adam says, the algorithm is manipulated anyway, so nothing much should change with that part of the proposal. And neither should their revenue, as everyone uses their adtech anyway, which is the actual issue.