Computer Ethics, Fall 2023

Monday Nov 6, class 9

Class 9 Readings

Read chapter 3 of Baase on speech




Who ruined the Internet?

(That is, who ruined the effectiveness of Google search)

Was it Google, or was it the Search Engine Optimization (SEO) crowd?

https://www.theverge.com/features/23931789/seo-search-engine-optimization-experts-google-results

Is Cash Still King?

Or are we doomed to a digital-payments future? And do we care? This guy does:

https://brettscott.substack.com/p/10-reasons-to-fight-cashless-society

More news from the Amazon antitrust case.

Amazon closed its "Seller-Fulfilled Prime" delivery option and forced all sellers on Amazon into "Fulfillment by Amazon", even though SFP deliveries met their targets 95% of the time. Why did Amazon shut down SFP?

It turns out that the SFP targets were waay slower than Prime targets.

https://reason.com/2023/11/06/the-wildly-misleading-statistic-at-the-center-of-the-ftcs-antitrust-case-against-amazon/






Free Speech

Google, Censorship and being forgotten