[bestbits] Interesting Op-ED: How social media took us from Tahrir Square to Donald Trump

[parminder]

Another good article! We seem all to have put our arms up in complete
surrender even as we keep watching in horror the kind of power that
global mega tech corporations wield...

This is an interesting direction to explore...
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/aug/15/elizabeth-warren-accountable-capitalism-act-richest-companies

and very interestingly, coming from the US.... The only good thing Trump
could have done to the world might be that he actually forces democrat
to leave the Hillary-ian sugar-coated rightism to the kind of politics
where the democratic party actually belongs, in the Roosevelt-ian
tradition... I know I am perhaps being too optimistic , but ....

parminder


On Wednesday 15 August 2018 09:29 PM, Gus Rossi wrote:
> Hi everyone!
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> I want to share with you this interesting and provoking op-ed
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> https://www.technologyreview.com/s/611806/how-social-media-took-us-from-tahrir-square-to-donald-trump/
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