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David Solway at American Thinker asks the question:
Should First Amendment rights be
extended to Big Tech corporations to publish and censor as they please?
This is a question that has agitated the discussion on whether antitrust
legislation should be applied to infogiants such as Google, YouTube, Twitter,
Facebook, Reddit, Amazon, Pinterest and many others that have cornered the
market on a public resource, information, and an essential human activity, the
consumption of information. A solution to the problem of data sequestration and
restricted access practiced by these companies is to rebadge them either as
publishers or, alternatively, as public utilities.
Meanwhile, TMZ via Fox News reports:
The millionaire, who co-founded
Apple with Steve Jobs, recently said that a lack of privacy is
his main concern regarding the Menlo Park, Calif. company and Big Tech in
general.
“There are many different kinds of
people, and some [of] the benefits of Facebook are worth the loss of privacy,”
Wozniak told TMZ, which spoke with the tech mogul at Reagan National
Airport in D.C. “But to many like myself, my recommendation is – to most
people – you should figure out a way to get off Facebook.”
Wozniak deleted his Facebook account back in March 2018,
shortly after news broke about the Cambridge Analytica data scandal, which
revealed that the private data of millions of Facebook users was being harnessed by the firm that worked for Donald
Trump's presidential campaign. The United Kingdom's top data watchdog group
concluded that Cambridge Analytica's use of Facebook's data was illegal under
British law.
Full report is here. Some related info from Business Insider:
Deactivating your Facebook
account does not delete your information from Facebook's servers. It's
hidden from other users, unavailable to the public, but it continues to live on
in Facebook's vast digital-storage vaults. If you're ever interested in
revisiting the photos you posted to Facebook way back when, or getting back in
touch with that long-lost friend, you may want to deactivate your Facebook page
instead of outright deleting it.
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