created by the two digital behemoths, and that in wielding their market power, they risked undermining democracy and broader society. A final report is due by June 2020.of big tech companies for privacy breaches, excessive market power and failure to take responsibility for the content on their platforms. The committee recommended regulation of these companies and making them legally liable for content shared on their websites.
Facebook has become the poster child for society's increasing tech resentment. It has been roundly condemned for a series of damaging operational failures, including not stemming the spread of fake news and– an outcome many believe might have tipped the 2016 US presidential election and the UK's Brexit vote in the same year.
Sean Parker, the billionaire American entrepreneur and investor who was Facebook's first president, says the company is exploiting vulnerabilities in human minds.ChamathPalihapitiya, a venture capitalist who was Facebook's vice-president for user growth until 2011, is worried the platform is "destroying how society works".
, which is designed to help users monitor and track phone usage, and restrict access where necessary. Almost every week there are stories of problematic tech use. The British tabloids last year reported that a nine-year-old girl was so addicted to playing the hit video gamethat she wouldn't leave the couch to go to the toilet. Her parents found her awake in the middle of the night, playing the game, sitting on a urine-soaked cushion.
mattallen jmcduling Timely. Navigating this topic in my family as we speak.
jmcduling Counterpoint! My 3yo plays with the iPad maybe once a week, and has just started getting into Mario Kart, but she’d much rather go to the pool with me. She also talks to the google home daily. She’s alright.
jmcduling Tells you everything you need to know about the ethics of these people.