Email shows Google tried to help elect Clinton

[livingston]

 

[libertysnake]

Some very good points. Especially that so much hysteria was thrown around Facebook ads by a foreign nation.

The issue here is that these companies are public private-spaces. While they’re allowed to act with all the protections of a private company, they’re also representing themselves as a forum for discussion for public discourse.

While the companies themselves are allowed to advocate for whatever they wish, we may want to consider communications guidelines for these public private-spaces against artificial manipulation of what users see, if they want to operate as an open forum.

However, the problem is that the above is impossible to do because:

* the government doesn’t know best how to curate a better user experience.
* any curation could be viewed as manipulation, just about.
* almost all political representatives are technologically illiterate and would never have the mental capacity or expertise to make reasonable guidelines.

In the end, the only real alternative is to build alternative tech companies that push more libertarian views.