Mark Zuckerberg is speaking today on free speech. I wrote a piece for the New York Times on how to actually address the problem of big tech and free speech. Break them up and get rid of advertising on information utilities. nytimes.com/2019/10/17/opi…
A key problem we have with big tech is something I call "Conflicted Communications." Advertising corrupts communications networks just like it corrupts media. But we have systems set up for media, but not for these new information utilities. nytimes.com/2019/10/17/opi…
The problem with Google and Facebook is twofold. They have monopolized ad revenue globally. But they have also themselves *been corrupted* by ad revenue, aka conflicted communications. Larry/Sergey knew this would happen. They wrote about it in the 1990s. nytimes.com/2019/10/17/opi…
The business model of having third party advertisers paying for our communications apparatus is inherently corrupting. We must pay directly for our communications facilities. That's the answer to the Facebook and Google big tech problem. nytimes.com/2019/10/17/opi…
