The caveat is that Facebook has a long history of claiming that it's not a media company in order to try and avoid responsibility for certain things.
That may be true, but as long as it's social interaction, and news-worthly, it will be..
The caveat is that Facebook has a long history of claiming that it's not a media company in order to try and avoid responsibility for certain things.
Social laws don't take money, other than paying the lawmakers who pass them. Anyway, left wing politics is about taxing to redistribute the money through welfare and/or public services.I think you're in the wrong forum, lol! We're talking about taxes. You can't spend more money on social reform if you want to tax people and corporations less. It's dollar and cents, something Cook is probably pretty good at, so yes, this is a bit of a contradiction.
I didn’t vote for Trump and I can’t stand him but let’s face it all this outrage directed towards social media is because everyone in the media expected Hillary to win. They still haven’t accepted that Trump won and have to find an excuse for why Hillary lost. Of course the real reason she lost is she was a terrible candidate who ran a terrible campaign. Facebook, Twitter and Google had nothing to do with that.Exactly. This entire war on fake news by the “mainstream” media is more about who controls the narrative and distribution of information. Are there fringe trolls and “sources” out there making up stuff? Of course. We’re people turning to these “sources” before the last election. Absolutely. If the government and big media want people’s trust, earn it. Institutional distrust is not new, and is not a Trump, Obama, Republican, or Democrat creates problem.
Depends how many they made I guess
At least under Trump we can see some changes happening in the Middle East best example is Saudi Arabia’s opening up to the world and changing their attitudes toward women and doing some major religious reforms something Bush or Obama never cared for.
It's almost like Russia influenced the other idiot to skip campaigning in Wisconsin.
She's still an idiot.Yeah, you don't actually believe that Trump is responsible for that, do you? The guy who made no mention of Saudi Arabia improving on human rights or women's rights in his speech there? The guy who said that he was "not here to lecture" and who sought "partnership not perfection" in Saudi Arabia, basically admitting he was happy to turn a blind eye to human rights there?
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I also blame Hillary for her mistakes, because she ended up failing to save us from this utter disaster of a rapacious, corrupt presidency. And yes, also Russia played. It's not one or the other.
Will be interesting to hear Cook’s take on tax reform. He’s very liberal in his political views, but has a fiduciary responsibility to his company to turn a profit. Those seem to be competing ideology’s.
Is this guy going to ever stop being a political hack and just run his company?
And transgender rights.There's nothing self-contradictory about supporting the free market AND gay marriage.
At least under Trump we can see some changes happening in the Middle East best example is Saudi Arabia’s opening up to the world and changing their attitudes toward women and doing some major religious reforms something Bush or Obama never cared for.
Apple is clearly worried about how the iPhone X sales may play out.
Really? You are going to compare CNN to a completely fabricated story made up by Russian trolls that the right wingers are eager to eat up....and then call CNN false. Sure the major networks have their biases...but Russian troll farms are a new level of fabrication and fake news.Social media spreading fake news? How about major networks...
Not sure what you mean by media influencing critical thinking. If you think mainstream media is influencing critical thinking then by all means so is your FB feed that is heavily biased to what you want to read.Honestly, can we not go on and on about these social networks spreading fake news and influencing people and instead start talking about critical thinking skills?
It's almost as if the media and the establishment don't want people to have or need to think critically. Easier to control that way?
Really? You are going to compare CNN to a completely fabricated story made up by Russian trolls that the right wingers are eager to eat up....and then call CNN false. Sure the major networks have their biases...but Russian troll farms are a new level of fabrication and fake news.
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Not sure what you mean by media influencing critical thinking. If you think mainstream media is influencing critical thinking then by all means so is your FB feed that is heavily biased to what you want to read.
That's the problem now a days. People do not get balanced news that would allow them to think critically. FB and social media is actually worse than the mainstream networks.
Will be interesting to hear Cook’s take on tax reform. He’s very liberal in his political views, but has a fiduciary responsibility to his company to turn a profit. Those seem to be competing ideology’s.
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You realize he is also a citizen and a head of a company that employee tens of thousands of people. I agree that corporations influencing government isn't a good thing but this is the least of our worries. Let him speak out. He has the right to do so...
In the meantime, maybe we should focus on abolishing Citizens United. That's a much bigger problem.
the next time you go to a restaurant and experience food poisoning because there was no food inspection of the restaurant or the food supplier remember it was because taxes are only for welfare and social services.Social laws don't take money, other than paying the lawmakers who pass them. Anyway, left wing politics is about taxing to redistribute the money through welfare and/or public services.
Those aren't the kinds of social issues I meant, and I'm not sure if they're even considered social issues. I didn't say the bolded part, so maybe you should reread my 2-sentence comment, consider that I'm not down to write an essay clarifying everything perfectly, and make a few easy assumptions instead of pretending I'm a total idiot.the next time you go to a restaurant and experience food poisoning because there was no food inspection of the restaurant or the food supplier remember it was because taxes are only for welfare and social services.
Maybe you should learn about all the medical research that is funded with tax dollars (and not private corporate funds).
Dont forget the public funds that paid for the development of the internet you are using.
How do you reconcile the sentiments you expressed in the first paragraph with those you expressed in the second? They seem rather contradictory.
Should people lose their free speech rights (and the protection thereof provided by the First Amendment) because they are associated with or as a corporation (or when acting in such context) or not? Should someone who is, e.g., being paid by a corporation lose their speech rights while acting on behalf of that corporation?