Big Censors 3

 (cont'd from yesterday's post)

Big tech companies seem to think they can get by with forbidding/eliminating/censoring things they don't like: Amazon eliminates books for sale, Facebook shuts down accounts, Twitter bans people from their site - because they are the judge of what's best for you.

Do we hear both sides of controversial issues impartially, or do we completely trust them - the technology billionaires - to feed us their opinion about right and wrong?

We all know that Google and Facebook track our internet activity - so that the ads can help us buy things, of course. But it goes quite a bit further than that.

"[S]ince August of 2019, they’ve been using a tool called “Off-Facebook Activity” to see EXTERNAL browsing activity. In other words, they’re watching everything you do, not just through Facebook. According to this story, “All websites visited and many phone apps send Facebook a user’s digital activity . . "

I remember when fb was just a fun way to keep in touch with friends and family.

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