<story><title>Talk cancelled due to slides critical of Google and Facebook</title><url>https://twitter.com/randfish/status/1389279726305353730</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>fallingknife</author><text>The title is misleading.  The whole presentation is critical of Google and FB.  The conference was fine with the slides that criticized them for the way they do business with their partners.  They asked for the removal of the slides that go into wider politics, like trying to blame FB&amp;#x2F;Google for political extremism and income inequality.  Totally reasonable decision IMO.</text></comment>
<story><title>Talk cancelled due to slides critical of Google and Facebook</title><url>https://twitter.com/randfish/status/1389279726305353730</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>pembrook</author><text>...and the Streisand effect strikes again.&lt;p&gt;Everything Rand was going to present is true. If you&amp;#x27;re building your marketing efforts around the benevolent algorithmic dictators of Google and Facebook...you&amp;#x27;re not really building a business. You&amp;#x27;re sharecropping and building a house of cards. One algorithm change from the overlords and your business dries up overnight.&lt;p&gt;The fact that organizers are self-censoring their talks to avoid offending Google and Facebook is evidence alone that these companies have way too much power.&lt;p&gt;My favorite part is where he points out the massive mistake of everybody who drove their customers to a Facebook page and told them to &amp;quot;like&amp;quot; it. Facebook then disinter-mediated these customer relationships and cut business page reach to near zero (0.09% as he shows in one of the slides). These businesses ended up growing Facebook&amp;#x27;s business more than their own.</text></comment>