"...There’s a saying in Silicon Valley: If you’re not paying for it, you’re not the customer, you’re the product.
So before all of you Facebook users post your next anti-Trump screed and unfriend your neighbor for wearing a MAGA hat, maybe you should read the “Terms of Service” you agreed to when you signed up for the “free” service.
...Isn’t it amazing that in 2012 when Obama’s re-election campaign was “scraping” data, he was hailed as a genius? But when Cambridge Analytica did it in 2016, it suddenly became an “Orwellian” scandal.
Because, of course, they were doing it for Donald J. Trump.
Speaking of Trump, I don’t think he’s serious about trust-busting these Politically Correct totalitarians in Silicon Valley.
I wish he were.
These billionaires have a lot more power, and they use it more darkly, than the John D. Rockefellers, Andrew Carnegies and Buck Dukes did.
...I’m trying to be angry about Facebook’s alleged betrayal, but really, who couldn’t see this coming?"
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