I’ll probably get hounded for saying this here but:
I genuinely believe that one of the biggest things harming American society right now is adtech. From social media to traditional media they have become obsessed with clicks and view time. This leads to negativity and extremism getting promoted and sensationalism overtaking authentic journalistic approaches. Not only that but it means a population that is getting constantly bombarded with terrible, often overinflated stories. Why? Because all this sells because the human brain is wired to focus on danger before all else.
China doesn’t have this same problem because it controls the media and censors social media. From a purely psychological standpoint this is a positive but there are obviously deep implications for what that censorship does to a society as well.
To answer your direct question, any losses by Google due to this will be dwarfed by the positive implications for the American society. I’m not saying this will fix the above problems but the amount of good it will do (in conjunction with other legislation especially, ie link tax and repealing section 230) is greater than the amount of bad by a mile.
I genuinely believe that one of the biggest things harming American society right now is adtech. From social media to traditional media they have become obsessed with clicks and view time. This leads to negativity and extremism getting promoted and sensationalism overtaking authentic journalistic approaches. Not only that but it means a population that is getting constantly bombarded with terrible, often overinflated stories. Why? Because all this sells because the human brain is wired to focus on danger before all else.
China doesn’t have this same problem because it controls the media and censors social media. From a purely psychological standpoint this is a positive but there are obviously deep implications for what that censorship does to a society as well.
To answer your direct question, any losses by Google due to this will be dwarfed by the positive implications for the American society. I’m not saying this will fix the above problems but the amount of good it will do (in conjunction with other legislation especially, ie link tax and repealing section 230) is greater than the amount of bad by a mile.