I’m sure they didn’t bother, and didn’t care to, either. CEOs are not interested in being good citizens — just exponential growth.

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Last century (I love saying that), I worked for a company that had a new media platform that allowed you to edit little presentations that people had made, and then upload them — without an account, so essentially anonymously

In a meeting, I said, “Won’t people use this for spam, pornography and harassment?” This was fairly early in Internet days — but we all already knew the word “Spam”. It seemed obvious to me… but I was told, “No” (nicely enough, they were nice guys).

A few weeks later, I brought up the same thing again, and was told, “This says more about you than anything else!”

Eventually I left — very amicably. You see it coming, but the next I heard of them, only a few months later, was an article about their system being overwhelmed by pornography…