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    1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 3 Jun 2019

      Jeet Heer Retweeted Max Fisher

      This isn't surprising to anyone who has paid attention to YouTube's growth strategy & lack of moral compass. But it's still shocking.https://twitter.com/Max_Fisher/status/1135529605530411008 …

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      Max FisherVerified account @Max_Fisher
      YouTube’s algorithm has been curating home movies of unwitting families into a catalog of semi-nude kids, we found. YT often plays the videos after users watch softcore porn, building an audience of millions for what experts call child sexual exploitation https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/03/world/americas/youtube-pedophiles.html …
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    2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 3 Jun 2019

      Milton Friedman famously argued in 1970 that “The Social Responsibility of Business Is to Increase Its Profits” (the title of his article). In Friedman's terms, YouTube is being social responsible by allow Nazis & pedophiles to form communities on social media.

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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 3 Jun 2019

      Let's take Friedman on his own terms & say that, given their mission to maximize profit, it's ethical for corporations to destroy the environment, spread Nazism & kiddie porn. In other words: business can have no real ethics, so the state has an obligation to regulate.

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        1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 3 Jun 2019

          Friedman's “The Social Responsibility of Business Is to Increase Its Profits” is actually a useful & true axiom; it dispels the illusions of morally decent businesses and philanthropy. It clarifies why a robust social democracy is the only way forward.

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        1. Suburban Guerrilla Ω‏ @SusieMadrak 3 Jun 2019
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          God, I know SO many wingnuts who believe there is no higher moral value than increasing profits. Why not poison people if you can make money at it?

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        1. Thomas Kaempfen‏ @ThomasKaempfen 3 Jun 2019
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          So we’re all the Moral Majority now?

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        1. Duffy‏ @GiantsOfMedia 3 Jun 2019
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          But he was opposed to regulation because “free market”, or something.

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        1. Bruce McTague‏ @BruceMctague 3 Jun 2019
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          When we chose Friedman over Drucker, with a dose of Gordon Gekko for extra measure, we chose to design companies and economies for short-term gain, conditioning investors for growth instead of value. i'd rather teach Drucker mindset than regulate bad behavior.pic.twitter.com/RtLwfIpaWo

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        1. Magnifico ULTRA  👑‏ @MagnificoIX 3 Jun 2019
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          Government can’t regulate “the spread of Nazism”. I doubt it can regulate innocent videos being repacked as kiddie porn either.

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        1. Mearsheimer‏ @Mearsheimer 3 Jun 2019
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          Societal breakdown fueled by a strict interpretation of a director's and officer's fiduciary duty.

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        1. Mental Health of Nations‏ @gasgebouw 3 Jun 2019
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          Business is rational Government is national @4cn

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        2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 3 Jun 2019
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          But as we see with fossil fuel companies & climate or Silicon Valley & Nazism, actual existing business owners have no such ethical custom.

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