Political science taught me one thing: what changes the world is not what we think or say, it's what we do, and the most groundbreaking actions are those who create the everyday things that change our lives in dramatic ways - mobile phones, cars, planes, TV, YouTube, Netflix, Maps, chats, what-you-use.Įrgo, if we want a truly 'fair' network, I think there's no other way but to make one. when we transition from radio to TV, or when began the post-Facebook era.

What does seem to 'work' is the subversion of one sub-market by another, e.g. I mean it's wishful thinking and whatever 'law' ends up being circumvented. So I thought/researched/wrote for 10+ years about possible legal frameworks and regulation for the 21st century and in the end it seems an untenable proposition to 'force' such evolution by way of law, if we look at the actual history of most sectors - energy, construction, steel, media, telco. Most conceivable harmful acts don't have much of a benefit for anyone. It's a lot easier to cause harm through indifference than greed because greed requires that you have a way to benefit. This also explains why the same evil conduct sometimes shows up in cases where no one can figure out any way that google actually benefits.

I heard there was once a company with a 'don't be evil' mantra, but they abandoned it as they grew. Maybe it could be reduced with the right kind of attitude towards introspecting and seeking out systemic causes of evil consequences even at their own expense. If one day they decided to stop being actively evil this problem would not go away. Google's actions are sometimes explicitly malicious, but they're even more often malicious OR indifferent, as that is a strict superset. IMO characterizing it as involving malice ('pretend') actually _understates_ the problem. Or for infrastructure that has a history of hurting google to get disabled while infrastructure that has a history of hurting others gets ignored in favor of spending more time on new projects or fixing things that hurt google.

This sort of evil behavior doesn't require intent or actual malice to form.Īll it requires is that panic efforts to fix things be primarily allocated to problems that hurt google and not primarily allocated to things that hurt google's opponents.

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