“That infringement threatens not just significant monetary damages, but the potential for injunctive relief that would threaten Twitter’s ongoing business as currently operated.”
This feels like an extremely important part of this story that no one is even discussing. What ended up happening here?
“Mr. Zatko alleges that:
Twitter’s platform is built in significant part on the misappropriation and infringement of third party intellectual property”
https://twitter.com/sparklingruby/status/1620625924097179649?s=20&t=8yV-HY-qn0MdTaQQOI5iTQ
As an experienced software engineer having seen all kinds of projects - big and small - I can tell you one thing. The implementation of the tech in Google and Amazon especially did not happen in a normal project. They had access to infinite money tap for one thing, and the tech took at least 20 years - I am specifically talking about Amazon AWS and Google search platform.
It took 20 years to build up the coding for a worldwide all-in-one online shopping center?
I am talking about AWS. Its probably the single most powerful tech that pretty much runs more than half of the Internet.
Yep, and it’s insane how everyone’s just fine with it.
I don't know about 20 years, especially since we saw Google grow in real time, but AWS is pretty huge for sure.
It's actually not good that so much runs off of AWS (Cloudflare too, to be honest) because any outages affect a huge swath.
Then there's what we've been seeing for years, where they cancel sites and service to those who don't peddle their bullshit too.
What's also really bad, from Google this time, is the effective monopolization of advertisement delivery, as we saw with the likes of Alex Jones.
It's clear that Big Tech is very incestuous, and I wouldn't doubt the involvement of their daddy, the U.S. government.
I remember a day in 1999, up until that moment I used to use a combination of altavista, excite, lycos etc to do my search and I asked a buddy "Which is the search engine you use for xyz?" and he replied "Forget xyz, using this cool new engine from the university folks called Google".
The switch was instantaneous, not just for me but for pretty much everyone around me.
When basically nothing came of the Cambridge Analytica stuff it was fairly obvious Facebook was being allowed to advertise by listening to people's phones 24-7 in exchange for handing all the data to the NSA. Nowadays they use your microphone, camera, and probably your brainwaves and the US government gets 100% of the data.
That goes down for just an hour, it would cause worldwide chaos.