Empire of AI: Karen Hao & Roger McNamee Expose Sam Altman, Musk & Big Tech

Podcast Episode · The Nerd Reich · 06/16/2025 · 1h 1m

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Big Tech Backs Trump to Cut Taxes, Boost Crypto, Replace Workers with AI: Roger McNamee

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#RogerMcNamee makes some good points about the carefully crafted gaps in FB's regulation proposals:
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/apr/02/mark-zuckerberg-fix-the-internet

... but let's not throw the baby out with the bathwater. The internet is a global medium, like the telephone or postal networks. It does make sense to have international treaties on user rights and internet regulation, so the operators of every website, big or small, can follow one clear set of rules that apply in every jurisdiction where the net can be accessed.

Zuckerberg’s proposals to regulate Facebook are self-serving and cynical | Roger McNamee

The Facebook founder’s proposals for how to regulate the social media platform are self-serving and cynical

Here's the #TeamHuman episode with #RogerMcNamee talking about his experience mentoring Mark Zuckerberg in the early years of FB:
https://teamhuman.fm/episodes/ep-124-roger-mcnamee/
Ep. 124 “Don’t Know Much About History” – Live from the Greene Space with Roger McNamee – Team Human

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"[Zuckerberg's] notion that connecting the whole world on one network was so obviously a good idea that it justified whatever means were necessary to get there."
- #RogerMcNamee talking to #DougRushkoff on #TeamHuman

An otherwise laudable desire for universal human unity, without respect for #DueProcess, or community rights to be autonomous from larger structures of power, is the essence of Empire. #KenWilbur pointed this out in 'A Brief History of Everything'. Democracy is network, not empire.