"After quizzing these companies about data practices, I learned that most are sharing what’s happening in my home with Amazon, too. Our data is the price of entry for devices that want to integrate with Alexa. Amazon’s not only eavesdropping — it’s tracking everything happening in your home."
#GeoffreyAFowler, 'Alexa has been eavesdropping on you this whole time'
@strypey@phlogiston
Then people wonder why we skip to the chase and commit to only using the derogatory term, scam'azon to refer to the abusive #monopoly.
Add to that the irony of having #scamazon gauge interest in communities outrage by gloating about their abuse in the #corporateNews outlet they own, ie. #TheWashingtonPost and we come full circle — its jerks all the way up (and around).
Don't forget to buy that scam'azon #ringDoorbell, fools.
@harrysintonen Maybe this will be the final straw that breaks the alcohol monopoly?
Depending on a single payment system for all government controlled alcohol dispensaries. Now that's a "real issue" that may get politicians to change their minds when the "juice" dries up... :KEKW: #systembolaget#Sweden#monopoly#alcohol#ransomware
I know I’m going to catch a lot of flack for this, but wouldn’t it be within a company’s rights to put out a SDK with a condition that they get a percentage of revenue generated by software created with it? And also within their rights to require that any software making calls to proprietary APIs on their operating system be compiled by that SDK?
There are tons of examples of this. Is the whole counter-argument that iOS is a monopoly?
@kfury The fundamental problem is that to have a #monopoly, #Apple would have to have the ability to set prices and production independent of their products' market segments, immune from the law of supply and demand.
But everything they make can be substituted with other products and platforms, albeit with those alternatives’ mix of features and capabilities.
That's called “competition," and those who can't hack it cry "monopoly" to the government.
Have you heard? We don’t have to take Roger’s latest price gouging lying down. The secret to a cheaper phone bill is more competition, and low-cost MVNO telecom providers are the key to getting us that competition.
The government hasn't gotten the memo yet and we need your help getting LOUD! Email your MP and INDU committee members to support MVNOs and ensure fair prices and choices for Canadians. 🇨🇦 https://openmedia.org/GoMVNO-em
People thinking copyright will save them from AI would do well to remember we are much, much closer to a world where AI companies can sue you for using your own work than one where you are magically protected from AI
If you don't have a lawyer you don't have a copyright. Not in any meaningful way.
@SirTapTap yep, #tech is a giant #monopoly. I do it simply to try to make a small case for myself in #court. I am sooo tired of companies taking my #intelectual#property with or without my “permission”. Let’s face it; we all signed their bs contracts allowing them to do this.
Monopoly was created in 1935 by Charles B. Darrow, based — without credit — on the Landlord’s Game, which was intended to teach players about taxes and had been patented by Lizzie Magie in 1904. Atlas Obscura's Adrienne Raphel looks at its cultural impact, whether it's a bad game, and its nadir — 2019's Ms. Monopoly, which remarkably failed to upend the patriarchy. edited to credit the original creator
... #Apple has become so emboldened by a decade of free monopoly reign that they don’t even feign a superficial adherence to their own rules. They carve out exceptions left and right to mega corporations they’d rather not anger, then invent entirely new rules that aren’t codified anywhere when it suits them...
“Blue states like California and New York have high housing costs in part because these states tend to house “superstar” industry #clusters like #SiliconValley, #Hollywood, and #WallStreet.”
#SouthKorea has proposed anti-#monopoly legislation targeting major online platforms to address concerns of market dominance, protect small businesses and ensure fair competition, with "dominant platform operators" facing restrictions on unfair practices.