arrythur

Just letting you know I'm using Pocket Casts and it's available now.

"The cornerstone of democracy is an informed public."

Absolutely agree with this. We have to elect our representatives based off of the knowledge we have of their actions and the policies they hold. Covering your ears and closing your eyes just makes you a less informed voter when the time comes. I think the need to shut out the news from one's life is perfectly acceptable, but at the very least, one should read some headlines at least once a week to get an idea of whats going on outside of their own personal world.

While I understand the sentiment, I don't think it's fair to deprive yourself of a form of entertainment (i.e owning a TV) because there are commercials. If that were the case, wouldn't you have given up on the internet a long time ago due to the nature of ads and propaganda being everywhere?

Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't the quiz app just a way to gain access to a user's data? So it wasn't so much the content of the quiz that was revealing, just the access to data it provided.

To add to that, just scan your notes into Evernote or whatever platform if you want digital copies. It takes a few seconds.

I completely agree, except my experience was on a Surface Pro 4. Let me start by saying it's a fantastic product and the experience of writing/erasing with the pen was great. I commit to it for a few months in college and while it was fun to write on, I found that it became more of a hassle when I would try to study or refer back to my notes. I would be switching tabs constantly on OneNote then back to a browser, then back to my notes, etc.

With traditional pen/paper, it leaves your computer fully available for research, videos, or quick references without having to switch around. Great products overall, but the experience is still lacking in that regard.

I don't think it's fair to put the blame on the company because users are naive enough to think that candy is perfectly fine and healthy to eat. People aren't clueless to the idea that companies are selling their information and their behavior is constantly be tracked. Was it Facebook's responsibility to display to show "Are you REALLY SURE you want to agree to this?"

If it already warned them prior to taking the quiz and they still said yes, I don't understand how they shouldn't be held accountable for this too.

I believe it absolutely has to be Zuckerberg to get the highest level of accountability from the company.

I disagree with your sentiment about Google News. I think it does a great job of aggregating all the sources to a given headline. It even goes as far as labeling the sources as "Opinion pieces", "Highly Cited", or even "From ___" opposing entity sources (eg. From Saudi Arabia sources).

There is no easy answer to to display ONLY unbiased sources, because that would require an unbiased source to pull from. Which I don't believe exists. With Google News, responsibility falls on the reader to use the sources in front of them to formulate an educated opinion and gain an understanding of the story. If a reader chooses to only view either right-wing or leftist sources via Google News, then that's beyond Google's control.

Are you referring to when Google blocked YouTube from Amazon Fire devices? If that's what you mean, then the order of events are the opposite.