Whenever we get people young enough to actually understand the internet, these giant tech companies might be broken up but as long as we have 90 year old senators asking tech CEOs how the internet works nothing will get done.

@resikchanel843

Жыл бұрын

Last fight kzread.info/dash/bejne/f4dpldGEYpm5f7g.html

@OGimouse1

Жыл бұрын

I remember being at the Senate hearings about tracking cookies, Mark Zuckerberg, some dude from Apple teuing to explain why it was okay to get different results on your mobile than your laptop, and the woman from Google who was selling people on why Google was advertising you things you got in your emails. That was 2008. This is exactly what they told the Senate they were going to do. It's just that for some reason no one thought this woukd be nefarious.

@ComradeCatpurrnicus

Жыл бұрын

This has to do with corruption, not age. Those senators might not understand what the internet is, but they do know what a monopoly and money is. The corrut politicians are more than willing to allow monopolies to continue with bribes and being given insider info to trade off of. These corrupting influences aren't age exclusive, although many in Congress are admittedly quite old and corrupt.

@DennisMoore664

Жыл бұрын

"It's a series of tubes!"

@JasperJanssen

Жыл бұрын

@@asherujudo7383 you don’t know what a monopoly is.

Whenever someone tells you "the market will regulate itself", be sure it wont. Not if the companies at the top can prevent it.

@HitMarkersAreFun

Жыл бұрын

yes it will regulate itself, just not in ways that most people want it to - i agree with what you mean, it sucks balls

@somedragonbastard

Жыл бұрын

Oh, it'll regulate itself, just to make everyone at the top richer at everyone else's expense

@jinxsoderling1399

Жыл бұрын

it never did and never will

@stevenm732

Жыл бұрын

It’ll regulate itself. By not regulating itself

@johntodd6413

Жыл бұрын

Honestly with all the examples I see of people fixing markets to win, the idea was always a fantasy or a lie. It always starts with good intentions, then the biggest players complain, and before you know it anyone starting out is fighting to succeed while the people who tried a bit early on get to ride it out on seniority alone.

For those keeping track- both the bills mentioned in the episode are dead in the water so far, with a handful of co-sponsors each

@thealternative9580

Жыл бұрын

Of course they are. Government doesn't work for us.

@sanderbakker2126

Жыл бұрын

Unfortunately that was to be expected. Thank you for this update

@yaskygaming

Жыл бұрын

Literally was coming to ask this, since I checked the post date and it's been a while. Thanks for sharing.

@giltsholder

Жыл бұрын

Hopefully the EU does something about it then.

@nospam3327

Жыл бұрын

Well, fwiw, Oliver's prophecy of Democrats getting slaughtered in the midterms proved false

I had a best friend say "I'm gonna Bing it.." about 5 years ago I still remember it because I never saw him again after that. Not a coincidence.

@willashriver1356

2 ай бұрын

Lol. I've said, "Duckduckgo that!" 😊

@RevShifty

2 ай бұрын

​@@willashriver1356DDG is literally all I've ever used for 10+ years. Whenever it was that Screwgle finally went down, the very next day I started using DDG.

I remember working at a local game store, and making it a point of pride whenever I convinced a customer to buy from us and not amazon. One time someone came in to buy Catan, and they said, “well, I ordered it already on Amazon, but I really want to play it tonight.” I reminded them they could cancel the order, and they did in a heartbeat. That felt very, very good.

@geoshi8378

Жыл бұрын

I've been avoiding purchasing through Amazon entirely and have used Google (lol) to find local stores where I can buy what I need. Gets me to explore new areas of my city and meet new people, and feels good to be directly supporting people in my area.

@jamesroberts3013

Жыл бұрын

@@geoshi8378 That's the thing, we were expecting Covid to be the thing that killed the shop, but so many people in the community flocked to the shop to support the community. It feels weird to be in a sort of ethics-based economy.

@mayorofbagtown9097

Жыл бұрын

I wish this was an option for me but every game store in central Texas (Austin area) price their stock way over what it should be. Wii remotes are 50 bucks, a nintendo DS is 70 bucks, Gamecube games are all at least 20 bucks over what they are on Ebay, and it goes on. There are no reasonably priced game stores around me at all. On top of that, they try to rip you off big time with trade-in values. edit: just realised you were talking about a board game shop lol.

@ILuvAyeAye

Жыл бұрын

I just... Hate stores. So much. I hate them. I live in a busy city, in a busy area, I don't have a car so I can't go to other places, and I have trouble just tolerating my grocery store. This isn't new to the Internet - my parents always hated shopping too. I think we have some combination of sensory issues + ADD that can make stores really overwhelming. I buy things in person sometimes, but I almost always researched the item online first. I just can't make those decisions with someone staring at me asking me questions. I guess if I was born in a pre-Internet time, I would shop in person a little more, and simply own less shit. My pocketbook would probably thank me.

@Diphenhydra

Жыл бұрын

Also, just the fact that if I go to a store I can physically see the item is enough for me to prefer that. Even if it is Walmart sometimes. I will always try to purchase things in person when I can, obviously there are times I have to use amazon because at least it’s a somewhat reliable marketplace with a customer service.

Back in 2018 when John Oliver did the episode on Corporate Consolidation it inspired me so much that I applied for a Masters of Research program, got into a program, and did my entire research thesis on tech oligopolies. It was shocking to see how bad it really is; oligopolies that bordered in monopolies are rampant. My research essentially focused on the question of whether lack of enforcement of our antitrust laws caused this whole problem or whether lack of adequate laws were the core of the issue. The answer was that it was truly both. I thoroughly enjoyed my pre-doctoral masters thesis and am considering a PhD in the future. It's so lovely to see John talk about this, specifically on the tech sector! Edit: Wow! Thanks everyone for the great comments! I haven't published it yet, otherwise I would share it with all you lovely people ❤ I am now looking for a policy or qualitative research/analyst job so if anyone is hiring, let me know 😅

@kelltoran6658

Жыл бұрын

Did you ever publish your research? I would love to read it.

@foobar8894

Жыл бұрын

Welcome to a new feudal system. And since the ruling class profits as much as the tech companies do, don't expect anything to change any time soon. Privacy is dead, independent journalism is nearly dead, the free market is dead, soon democracy will be dead.

@RevShifty

Жыл бұрын

@@kelltoran6658 Same.

@cyborgsharkmonkfish6512

Жыл бұрын

This was a useful comment

@mariyamwaniki

Жыл бұрын

You go girl, get that education. Smart Cookie

John Oliver deserves an Oscar for his 'Can Dolphins love you?" monologue

@peaksingularity3032

Жыл бұрын

The Deep approves this message !

@keithdavison2960

Жыл бұрын

It was powerful stuff

@unsrescyldas9745

Жыл бұрын

no

@88darling88

Жыл бұрын

that needs to an assignment for theater students to perform

@turtleofpride4572

7 ай бұрын

Him not acknowledging Peter the dolphin was a miss opportunity. Unless he's talked about the dolphin acid experiment

I work for a local pool shop and we sell robotic pool cleaners. I cannot even begin to tell you how often someone comes in, asks a price, and then tells us they'll buy it off Amazon instead. Amazon doesn't just harm online retailers, it also harms actual real life retailers too. We cannot compete with prices that are as low as $900

@Uruz2012

23 күн бұрын

Offer to support the product in some way. You can offer something that Amazon can't... interaction with a person who can help directly.

@matthewhayes3142

18 күн бұрын

well, to be blunt, retailers need to do a better job at demonstrating actual value for their prices. i've experienced some dreadful behaviors from retailers giving off the entitled, you should be grateful i'm here for you attitude, while charging higher prices. uhh, no. i'll go to amazon if i don't need that important relationship. if i do need the relationship, then i'll find a competitior who offers value. i'm fine paying the higher price, but not for the entitled attitude.

@pdruiz2005

18 күн бұрын

You forget that if all brick and mortar businesses of a certain product are driven out of business by Amazon, Amazon will then be free to set the price. You can bet your butt that as soon as they happens, Amazon will jack up the price. So don’t think Amazon convenience is free. It ain’t.

I worked for a company that did wholesale and retail business with Amazon. Many times we were selling the exact same skus retail that they bought and warehoused. Obviously Amazon would control the buy box. As an experiment, I dropped the retail price to see what Amazon would do. Their algorithms immediately dropped the price on their inventory. Since I was selling to them, I knew what they paid wholesale. So I dropped the retail price BELOW their wholesale price. Amazon's algorithms immediately dropped their price BELOW what they paid for it, and they were willing to go as low as I would go, right up against free. How can anyone compete with a company that can run losses like this?

@nicholase2868

Жыл бұрын

Well, you could beat the system by lowering your price then buying up a ton of discounted product to resell after they reset the price

@GreenEarth20

Жыл бұрын

@@nicholase2868 go play some EVE Online, try this strategy in the player run marketplace and let me know how it goes.

@jasonwilliams1713

Жыл бұрын

You should testify to congress

@fofopads4450

Жыл бұрын

@@GreenEarth20 we are talking about amazon, not eve. Would they be reported or somethong?

@darrylhardin5139

Жыл бұрын

@@fofopads4450 I think they're saying Eve because it has probably the best commerce system that reflects a real world in an mmo. Beyond that, I'm not exactly sure what they believe the result would be, but I'm guessing bad.

I used to be a seller on Amazon. EVERYTHING john presented about Amazon's business practices I personally experienced myself. I had to stop my business after a few years, throw away tens of thousands worth of merchandise, and now work a regular office job. I literally could not compete with Amazon on their own platform.

@NicholasLittlejohn

Жыл бұрын

Amazon is evil #BoycottAmazon

@iwishiwaswrongbutimnot517

Жыл бұрын

No. Your a liar and want attention.

@yannick245

Жыл бұрын

My mother only bought _"sold and send by Amazon"_ products. Because she didn't trust other sellers with her data and money. I always look for the cheapest deal and how the seller is rated. But you tried to build a business with being a seller solely on Amazon? That's not a good business model...

@thinkbeforeyoutype7106

Жыл бұрын

Exactly! These senators/congress who don’t understand and have their family members working for multinational corporations, wealthy individual donors, and special interest groups needs to be VOTED out immediately.

@thinkbeforeyoutype7106

Жыл бұрын

@@yannick245 It was a good business model when Amazon wasn’t interfering and stealing sellers info, but I get what you mean. Multinational corporations are sometimes far WORST than government yet some people think otherwise. We need public market place online as well as public square on social media.

The fact that they mentioned both kid’s guide to the internet and the Jeremy renner app makes it clear that one of the writers was watching drew gooden

@sunnysside6709

10 ай бұрын

they also mentioned ratatoing, so danny too??

@frankisnot1148

8 ай бұрын

NGL I almost choked on a drink when I've heard the Jeremy Renner App being mentioned

@redshirtwookiee

7 ай бұрын

I was thinking someone in the writing team enjoys Redlettermedia. Children's guide to the Internet was a gem.

@musicauthority674

5 ай бұрын

My last name is Renner also. but not related and I don't know much about him. and don't want to.

@roshnipatel2000

Ай бұрын

@@musicauthority674he’s just a normal actor but has very loyal fans

Follow up one year on. Did you just update to iOS 17.4? Live in the EU? Apple just got monopoly-busted. Thanks EU! Are you enjoying USB-C on your iPhone 15 Pro Max? Yup, that too. Send a thank you to the European Commission. Going back a number of years, do you remember those obscene roaming charges in Europe? Yup. That too. Consumer rights when flights get cancelled? Yup (always fly with European carriers whenever you can). Anyone pooh-poohing the EU thinking it’s all about government overreach isn’t paying enough attention and is taking a lot for granted.

@alancantu2557

Ай бұрын

Yep, I saw this in the news a few days back. I get some of the criticisms of the EU regarding national sovereignty and independent monetary policy, but when the EU works, it works very well. Despite all of its flaws, it has tremendous potential to further unite Europe for the benefit of the common citizen. Here’s to hoping the EU will continue on the right path.

I literally ate for an entire semester of college because of ATT, MCI and Sprint in about 1990. Those 3 were so competitive that they would send you a check for $300 to switch your long distance carrier. Not credit, not discount, a check that you could cash... and they kept no record of it. So every 2 months I would just switch my carrier, cash the check, and almost immediately the other two companies would start calling me making the same offer. And as soon as you switched away from a carrier, they would call you and offer you a check, even if you had already gotten one from the same company. The crazy part is, I had almost no long distance bill ever. It lasted for about 9 months before they stopped offering the checks. I'm going to estimate I made between $1500 and $2000 just from those 'switch to us and we will send you a check' offers.

@grass.dihenia2590

Жыл бұрын

Lolol bro you're a genius

@roykelley5687

Жыл бұрын

The true winner in all of this... A legend of ever there was one

@kellyb666

Жыл бұрын

I did the same thing! Phone switching was a reliable source of extra income for a while there in the 90's.

@zizinnnn

Жыл бұрын

good for you :)) 👏🏻

@sarajsh77

Жыл бұрын

I remember that. I did it once and couldn’t believe the check was real!

As an Amazon seller myself, absolutely being crushed by said policies on Amazon, I am so glad this got the attention that it needs. Amazon currently owes me nearly 7k and refuses to pay, and has caused so many liabilities over the past few years I couldn't even tell them all. We don't even get the chance to sue them for their mishaps because the agreement we sign when we sign up prevents us from doing so.

@madelineholland4275

Жыл бұрын

If it makes you feel any better, I canceled my Amazon account. And I tell everyone I canceled it. I hate monopolies.

@weemeemoo

Жыл бұрын

Holy hell, how can an agreement like that be legal?

@XXXoXXoXXXX

Жыл бұрын

I'll definitely be more cautious not to buy anything made by amazon for sure. And try my hardest to avoid them completely. Good luck.

@ILuvAyeAye

Жыл бұрын

Have you spoken to a lawyer about not being able to sue them for mishaps? If you have, they certainly know better than me. I just know often those "signing away your rights" clauses aren't enforceable.

@mary9983

Жыл бұрын

Same, been a seller for 2 yrs and every time I find a good product amazon undercuts me and takes the buy box.

11:26 he perfectly encapsulates the chaos of a wildly off topic and trailed off google search, and how it can emotionally wreak havoc in a matter of seconds lmaooo

I live for the day these companies are broken up. There’s no such thing as a free market when a company has enough power to strangle you out of existence, that’s not competition, that’s a cartel.

@littlejerryseinfeld4168

2 ай бұрын

not to mention they control all your information and are constantly finding ways to sneak ads to you or capture your email , my dad has had the same email for basically the entire time the internet has been popular, an aol email from the mid 90s, i got 10k deleted, 35k to go. the algorithms also drive political views and were constantly being a/b tested for advertisers, its fucking digital totalitarianism. its amazing how profound an effect this has had on our behavior in such a short time, im 39 and when I was 29 even it was nowhere near as bad as it is now

@sumomaster5585

2 ай бұрын

is it their fault they become successful?

One important aspect I'm surprised was left out is that many of these companies (like Amazon) literally power the internet. Almost 30% of the websites on the internet are stored on Amazon servers, giving them even more access to data trends and physical control over the internet.

@TheBestcommentor

Жыл бұрын

it's not mentioned because it's not an example of self-preferencing. AWS is a perfect example of a monopoly in general, though.

@drrockkso8882

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, AWS is one of those things that the general public doesn't realize how big it is. Amazon's domination of online retail gets all the public attention, but like a third of the internet runs on AWS servers now and AWS is by far the most profitable piece of Amazon's business portfolio, even though it only generates about 15% of their gross revenues.

@JeroenJA

Жыл бұрын

i work in Belgium, and started only to realise this, when my company with only some 200 workers, in price comparrison came out to AWS too... but they have such a head start that even Google and microsoft have trouble coming to the same scale of economies of scale to offer as good services for as low a price! and they are preppered to suffer some non-profit years to gain some market share! so that's really suprising. it does not need adressing, since it's a service to rent net capacity, it's no way a monopoly, and now that google and microsoft are more foccussed on it, they WIL gain some market share back from AWS as time progresses! like yahoo once was really dominant in internet mail too...

@artnerd1000

Жыл бұрын

Terrifying.

@JeroenJA

Жыл бұрын

@@artnerd1000 i really don't see the AWS part as that terrifying ! those systems are decided on by purchase responsees and real ict'er! chances are very little of AWS staying this dominant untill 2030 even! the regular people, don't like having to think to much about different option to just buy somthing pretty cheap... so the amazon web shops almost all dominiance is more worringly !!

I opened and ran a board game store for several years and Amazon was my biggest enemy. It’s a literal rule in our family that we don’t buy from Amazon, and we try extremely hard to only buy from small businesses.

@lm4349

Жыл бұрын

No Amazon purchases 2 years and counting

@mastachefe4204

Жыл бұрын

I have only bought a shirt off amazon and thats the only time i've used the site. Only reason i even used it then was because my niece had a bday wishlist on it and i got her the shirt. I have been aware for many years that supporting them was bad because it's clear they are just after getting as much power and control as they can and they want to own everything they possibly can.

@isajloskidarko

Жыл бұрын

shop local, support your neighbor, keep the money in the loop :)

@annafantasia

Жыл бұрын

Hear, hear! I simply don't buy anything on Amazon, and I survive just fine. There are always ways to get items you need, or maybe you didn't really need them. In the last 15+ years, I've only purchased a handful of things from Amazon, mostly because I ended up with gift cards... and in that case, I make sure to buy things that Amazon take a loss on, like books 😈

@thebside6267

Жыл бұрын

@@isajloskidarko Unfortunately Walmart ran most of those local small businesses out long ago.

Points that were missed: - Apple arguably has a specific Monopoly in the US with smartphones because of iMessage not being open with other multi-platform messaging apps. This weirdly only applies in the States. The rest of the world favours things like WhatsApp and Facebook messenger ( both owned by meta, Which is its own issue). That's probably the main defence Apple will bring up. - they've been in trouble before but don't forget about Microsoft, Windows 11 has seen them go back to some of their old tricks like a favouring their own software and making it difficult to remove. - this kind of got glossed over but although Google play takes the same cut for purchases as Apple, you are free to install other app stores and install apps from wherever you like, so they avoid the heat there. Google play is still the most preferred store on Android phones, so Google likely takes advantage of that fact in promoting its own software.

@AndreaLazzarotto

Жыл бұрын

You raised several valid points which, by the way, are slowly being addressed here in the EU. See for instance the Digital Markets Act.

@VictorLopez-vc6cf

Жыл бұрын

Good points but this video was already kinda long

@ArcturusOTE

Жыл бұрын

@@AndreaLazzarotto So if these companies comply to EU regulations, they'd also affect services (in a good way) provided everywhere else, right?

@AndreaLazzarotto

Жыл бұрын

@@ArcturusOTE not necessarily, but I hope so. Apple and Google might still want to enforce app store restrictions in non-EU/EEA countries.

@miketheburns

Жыл бұрын

only thing better about Google Play store vs. Apple iStore (or whatever it's called) is that to develop software for ANY Apple platform (OS, iOS, AppleWatch), you need to pay $99/year PER USER. Google just makes you pay a one-time fee of $99 PER COMAPNY. Also, you can compile and upload your program/app for distribution on any OS (Win, Linux, MacOS) for Google, but you have to compile and deploy on a physical Apple computer in order to get it on the AppStore. Oh yeah, and planned obsolescence means you have to buy a new Apple computer about every 7-10 years, otherwise it won't work with the minimum required compiler version. Fuck Apple so hard. I didn't even get to the "right to repair" shit...

for anyone wondering they both passed or rather got voted to advance with a 20/2 vote for the "open app market act" and a 16/6 vote for the "American choice and innovation online act"

@robotstonka7118

Жыл бұрын

...and Democrats did get "destroyed" in midterm!!

You know you are a monopoly when you are having to reassure people you have competitors.

@VisibleMRJ

Жыл бұрын

This make a lot of sense, that’s why you always hear startups saying they have no competitors.

@TylerZoucha

Жыл бұрын

Alibaba as a competitor? They must know that people would call out their bullshit.

@dreweverett

Жыл бұрын

No it actually just means most people are stupid and lazy. Kind of like this comment

I would like to point out that the fact that HBO, a media giant, puts the meat of one of its best programs on KZread should tell you a lot. These companies are so out of control that even OTHER MEGA CORPORATIONS have to depend on them and bow down to them.

@Orangeflea1

Жыл бұрын

I mean, I'm not sure what would be preferable.

@mous7181

Жыл бұрын

Or maybe this show is on YT because people outside USA can’t see it elsewhere ?

@nerfherder4284

Жыл бұрын

All I know is that HBO lets John ream their sponsors on air, so some props for that. YT is free, HBO is not, I am glad I get to watch this show and others on YT. Doesn't mean I think YT is awesome, but besides watching some commercials I pay them nothing and give them no info besides my watch history.

@samuela-aegisdottir

Жыл бұрын

@@nerfherder4284 "no info besides your watch history"!? Do you know that YT is owned by Google? It knows everything about you.

@fallout560

Жыл бұрын

TBF I think this is the only show in HBO's (or even Warner Bros Discovery's) entire catalog that uploads it like this.

Google's motto was "Don't be evil." Oh the irony.

“Can dolphins love” being answered with the case of Margaret Howe and Peter is some absolutely next level sight gags from the team who make the visuals. I understood that reference, and I appreciate you for it, visuals team.

@DailyCorvid

Жыл бұрын

Honestly John and this show consistenly have me choking on my cup of tea with those! Absolutely nail every single one. I love this show lol discovered it a few months ago, been watching the back catalog.

Companies: We love capitalism Capitalism: Here's some competition Companies: NOT LIKE THAT!

@TheAecke

Жыл бұрын

Companies: we love capitalism! We can pay lobyists to create law that prohibits competition. Capitalism: working slavey yay!

@l.a.gothro3999

Жыл бұрын

EX-actly. Very well-put!

@robertshort9487

Жыл бұрын

@Nicholas Time capitalism never ends up in monopolies. You are thinking of socialism

@rogersmith7396

Жыл бұрын

If only we could move to China. Those commies really understand capitalism.

@davgg9621

Жыл бұрын

@@robertshort9487 tell me you don't know a thing about socialism, without telling me you don't know a thing about socialism

I just use Amazon as a catalog. Once I find products that I'm interested in, I always always go to the manufacturer's website and buy it directly from them. I do not care if it costs more that way. It almost never cost more than just a few pennies or a few dollars more. Plus, I know I'm not going to get a counterfeit.

@aragorn1780

Жыл бұрын

Heck sometimes you even find it cheaper that way!

@Scorpia161

Жыл бұрын

This is how i'm trying to use Amazon going forward... i've always hated their business practices, but they lure of buying a bunch of random crap in one fell swoop would win out occasionally. I unlinked my credit card and will make a conscious effort to buy directly from merchants, or local places.

@axel3895

Жыл бұрын

Better yet call them, you may get a very good discount if it's an expensive item.

@laurenconrad1799

Жыл бұрын

I try really hard to do this. Sometimes it works. Unfortunately, sometimes it doesn’t. One time I tried to buy a product direct from the sellers website and the item just sat in a PayPal cart without doing anything. Finally I said f**k it and bought it off Amazon.

@brianfox771

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, I try to do this as much as possible as well. Often with add-ons like Honey I can get a better deal on the merchant's website and get free shipping with similar delivery times. And I actually do scroll down and look for the better prices or used-like new condition items.

Yo who tf is too close to the boom mic and hiss-laughing into it 😭

His bits freaking out about dolphins. Genius! Oliver is SO SMART and dived deep into his subject! Luv this guy! 👍🏼💙

I live for John's roasts of AT&T.

@treetv3351

Жыл бұрын

🤩😂🤩😂🤩

@mikewilliams3310

Жыл бұрын

That is a sad state for your life to be in, also u all now know the regret of breaking -us- AT&T up.

@Hadfield15

Жыл бұрын

Same here

@demilishing

Жыл бұрын

Not for long they're owned by Warner Bros now xD

@robinsharkey6658

Жыл бұрын

If only this MOFO would stop saying, "okay, Google"

Could we have an episode where we get updates on what happened to these cases ? Like, did this bill pass ? 😅

@reis5011

Жыл бұрын

unfortunately they did not

@chuckwilliams6261

Жыл бұрын

@@reis5011 The golden rule; he who has the gold, makes the rule.

@no_name4796

Жыл бұрын

Ehi the eu is passing the carbon tax, which is a step toward emission reduction, so at least one good news to make up for the bad one

@w00kie2004

Жыл бұрын

@@GeorgeWashingtonLaserMusket if you like to check history you'll see if you have enough gold your enemies will sell you their own bullets

@ashtyngarner5525

Жыл бұрын

Make a segment called and now- now this as an update web exclusive

I absolutely hate how the internet is both eliminating safe spaces for children (closing all those games sites like Disney and Cartoon Network hosted, as well as sites like club penguin, neopets, ect.) as well as trying to use them as an excuse to sanitize the rest of the internet.

@Jaxymann

Ай бұрын

Exactly: in the 'olden days' of the internet, younger users went to sites like Club Penguin, Disney, Cartoon Network/Nickelodeon and flash game sites that offered a safe, secure and age-appropriate environment whilst the rest of the internet was for adults. Now however, the destruction of those sites has seen the migration of young users onto social media and other sites with a mass of inappropriate content and interactions with unscrupulous and indeed *dangerous* people, and a whole host of issues around child safety online in the digital age.

People living in small towns face similar issues with internet providers. Some people will only have the choice between one “regular” internet provider and satellite internet. Comcast, Verizon, etc typically have a full monopoly on certain towns.

@Doc_Aspy

Жыл бұрын

That also bleeds into renters' bills. You have to use THIS cable service because no one else is allowed to run their service on our properties. You have to use THIS utility company and you pay them through us. It's bullshit.

@t0n0k0

Жыл бұрын

same with power companies too, John covered it a few weeks ago. 😏

@biocapsule7311

Жыл бұрын

That is why internet provider and other utilities needs to have a massive public option, if it isn't already nationalized. Not just because it will create competition, but also because the nature of fly-over regions simply cannot support more then 1 private company, there's simply not enough market to do so. The monopolies don't even have to suppress competition, there isn't a market worth doing so. You need an alternative that would guarantee service that you will never get from private monopolies.

@Styphon

Жыл бұрын

They will tell you there are alternatives. AT&T offers me "high speed" internet - DSL at around 1% of my cable internet speed. Yay competition? That'll force the cable companies to compete on price, speed, and service. 😜

@MrDannyd9

Жыл бұрын

Yes, that is an example of a monopoly, unlike what John’s team is conflating.

Mad respect to John Oliver and his team for not making us watch ads during the show. Major props.

@Cypres

Жыл бұрын

Oh my gosh!!! I never realized!! Now retrospectively when I think about it, that s right! There was never a KZread ad in John s videos... I join you in your mad respect

@chrisprilloisebola

Жыл бұрын

yt can decide to put ads on any video even if the channel doesnt add them. Not entirely up to him

@RideAcrossTheRiver

Жыл бұрын

@@chrisprilloisebola Oliver would roast KZread for a solid year if that happened.

@chrisprilloisebola

Жыл бұрын

@@RideAcrossTheRiver they already do that tho

@RideAcrossTheRiver

Жыл бұрын

@@chrisprilloisebola Never saw an ad in an Oliver piece.

This somehow reminded me when, back in the day of Macromedia Flash, they decided to let the users get their hands into coding themselves. The jump that Flash had from that version to next (I think it was from 5 to MX) was something they had never even anticipated. Users "went to the moon" with the things they created and Macromedia themselves said that they would have never even thought their product was capable of so much. Then, as everyone knows, Adobe got their hands in and killed it, but that's a different story. I really wonder what would happen if all this that Johno is talking would actually change, and something like what happened with AT&T happens with Google, Apple and Amazon.

@williamcunningham6141

Жыл бұрын

My internet at home is from Texh Savy because it was started to provide a far better, and secure Internet supplier, and better service.

@infomercialwars

7 ай бұрын

Flash was killed off for a good reason so I don't hold anything against Adobe for that, it was also a vector for all kinds of bad actors

i love how this man radiated determination and confidence while getting out of his car, randomly pulling on a strap and *not* opening the tailgate, before getting back into his car, as if his important job was done.

@kathygann7632

6 ай бұрын

The Democrats were not annihilated!

@fras2point028

2 ай бұрын

I realize this is very nit-picky, but the ratcheting part of the strap wasn’t secure. So the entire visual-parallel of “I know what I’m doing”, quite literally showed he did not know what he was doing.

The issue I have with Google is I can’t ever get to what I want anymore. I use to change words and phrases and quotes and it would change the results so I can find out exactly what I was searching for but now no matter what I do I get the same results. It’s like asking a question to a person and every time they answer with “here something I thinks relates”

@alansandoval1705

Жыл бұрын

What are you searching for that has to be so specific?

@XatxiFly

Жыл бұрын

Starting to happen more and more on KZread. I can enter the exact, sentence-length title of a niche 12-year-old meme I have a history of watching repeatedly and it'll serve me a page filled with completely unrelated prank vlogs and top 40 music videos that the algorithm already knows I never click on. It's bizarre to feel like the platform knows me LESS well than it did 5 years ago.

@SmokeyEdits

Жыл бұрын

@@alansandoval1705 have you literally never looked on google for the answer to a problem you're having? i mean c'mon, if you've had even the slightest computer issue that you've had to google you'd have seen this shit happen. you have a problem, you look up the problem on google, some of the solutions say to do x y and z thing, that doesn't work. now what? now you have an uber specific problem that the most common solutions don't work for. so you try to find the right solution, except google thinks it knows better than you so it's showing you results that are only tangentially related. ever looked up a movie clip on _this fucking website_ just to find out it wasn't uploaded? then you've probably seen this issue happening on youtube as well, where instead of trying to show you search results, it's showing you tangentially related (or sometimes not even related at all) results to your search. "People also watched", "For you", etc. what fucking meteor are you living on that you've not had problems finding things on google? even the highest level google-fu'ers i know have hopped to DDG because google is unusable. the go-to trick to make google work is to attach "reddit" to your search to get results that might actually help (and also because reddit's search feature is so bad it could be a monster in an ARG) but even then it's pretty hit or miss whether or not google wants to show you the proper results

@Drahko12

Жыл бұрын

Same I thought I was crazy. Simple questions asked 10 years ago will give you a decent result vs today where is results full of ads or things not even remotely related to the question asked

@HelloCatty_

Жыл бұрын

Drives me nuts that you can’t just quotation marks anymore to just get results including that specific term. The amount of times I’ve just had to give up is ridiculous.

A simple rule will fix most of these problems - You cannot be both a marketplace/platform, and a seller/service provider. That means Google must separate its widgets from its search. Amazon must separate the Amazon Basics business. Apple must separate its payments processing from its App Store. Meta must... Well, fuck Meta. They should be prosecuted for privacy violations anyway.

@rahulsinha9502

Жыл бұрын

Facebook’s products are laughable and irrelevant compared to the others anyway.

@Then00tz

Жыл бұрын

I used to work in utilities (gas/power) and that was called unbundling: the company that owned the gas pipe/power line had to be seperate from the company selling you the gas/power.

@siddharthdash8946

Жыл бұрын

India has added this rule in its e-commerce regulation law. However it does not seems to work the way are thinking

@roboticbrain2027

Жыл бұрын

What stops me from opening up another company and separating the business sectors among them? That's the problem with any kind of regulation trying to crack down on that. If you have unlimited money you can just create new legal entities indefinitely and shift the "blame". That's how to legally pay no taxes by the way. Because "on paper" you actually don't make any profit.

@cancerino666

Жыл бұрын

And they gotta split instagram and whatsapp from facebook.

The Bing Crosby line is gold.

@stereo-soulsoundsystem5070

22 күн бұрын

or white

This is terrifying how much control a couple companies have over our lives. We can't do anything in life without having to pay them first.

Glad light is being shined on this topic. As a former Amazon seller, this exact situation has happened many times on products I was selling through their platform. Amazon uses it's third party sellers to collect data on what items are hot, then go directly to the source or replicate it through private label. What also need mentioning is that third party sellers are basically at the mercy of Amazon. They can remove you at any time without warning. Most times it is without explanation. To possibly get your selling account back, you have to write POAs (Plan of Action) and pray that one gets accepted.

@claytonjames4779

Жыл бұрын

Did you have your account revoked AFTER Amazon started selling some of your items? That would make me think

@DXmaryoOD

Жыл бұрын

this is the case with their third party delivery companies. These companies can barely push back or they're at risk for getting kicked out. Which is how Amazon is able to avoid their drivers unionizing. Since most deliveries are done by third party companies, if drivers want to unionize, it's only for that one company. and most likely Amazon will just take away routes from them. And any information, news, or posts on the internet that discuss unions get scrubbed. Plus, as we're all familiar with. The working conditions are deplorable. They've even put cameras inside the vans to micromanage their workers.

@aspergale9836

Жыл бұрын

And it's pretty crazy really. Like, how much profit is there in Amazon Basics? Is it more than the total profit from all small sellers if they just up and disappeared? Not saying they'd _leave_ Amazon (because they couldn't, generally), but that there should be fewer and fewer of them as time goes on and it becomes natural to avoid Amazon when even planning a small business. Which is to say, Amazon loses their sources for ideas... So why not just leave everyone working and get your cut with no hubbub?

I’ve said it since a Walmart opened in my local neighborhood as a kid and legit destroyed all the small businesses near it; when a company gets THAT much success/money, it’s ALWAYS at the cost of fair trade and ethical standards.

@Rudyelf1

Жыл бұрын

What irks me the most is that people know this, yet still go there. People know Amazon is shady, but damn it if they don’t love it. Customers grew these monsters.

@hiimjustin8826

Жыл бұрын

What kind of kid knows modern phrasing like "fair trade and ethical standards"?

@CronoXpono

Жыл бұрын

@@hiimjustin8826 Easy. I asked questions as a kid and I was closer to my teens when the one near my house opened.

@michaeladkins6

Жыл бұрын

I always hated walmart destroying all of those small businesses. Now its Amazon or Walmart.

@joshfairchild

Жыл бұрын

My mothers hometown has a walmart, not a supercenter, specifically because of this. The local community constantly rallies against it when they start talking about expanding. They know it would kill any local stores.

Swear I can hear a snake laughing during this sksksksks

the uniquely amazing humor on this show is finally back and i love it

Its become more and more evident that John has had a rough past with horses and dolphins he just can’t get over.

@resikchanel843

Жыл бұрын

Last fight kzread.info/dash/bejne/n5yhw7WCgqu6ido.html

@Bundalaba

Жыл бұрын

Now that I think about it never seen a Dolphin up close . Is this the yearning in my heart ?

@theotherohlourdespadua1131

Жыл бұрын

Horses are scary when they're in heat, and so with dolphins. Actually Dolphins are WAY scarier than horses when in heat. Actually Dolphins ARE ALWAYS in heat. They're the second horniest animals in existence...

@theworm1199

Жыл бұрын

And Adam Driver

@liamnehren1054

Жыл бұрын

lol Dolphins are scary to everyone but humans because we bribe them with fish. They kill sharks for fun and murder porpoise because they look similar but aren't Dolphins, yes Dolphins murder because of racism. As for intelligence, studies into their brains definitively say they aren't anymore intelligent then the dumbest dog.

As someone who's dreamed of working at these companies to be at the edge of new tech, I was a bit hesitant at first. I like Google's quick answers, and I do scroll if needed. I like Amazon basics, they are reliable and consistent. However, the AT&T case drove it home for me, that we don't even know what the other options are, and the problem is that there is no room for those to grow. It's kind of scary to break out of convenience, but I guess we can't get comfortable if we want to keep growing

@LocardIII

Жыл бұрын

As someone that has worked for two of these companies (Amazon and Apple) we need to step in as a people and hold them accountable.

@richstoehr3247

Жыл бұрын

As someone who spent four years at Amazon, and who was initially very into being a small part of big tech, it doesn't take long to see the truth, if you're looking. From within, it's always "more, more, more" which is why they must be held accountable from without. Since I've left, I've found many alternatives to Amazon that are higher-quality and feel better to buy because I know what the people making or selling it stand for. It makes a difference.

@nickwallette6201

Жыл бұрын

You only have to be really good for a little while to get people hooked. Those quick answers from Google are awesome. And more than a little bit destructive to the sources that provide them, basically for free. The Amazon Basics stuff is great -- everyone buys them and loves that relatively decent stuff can be had so cheap .... for now. Until (what's left of) the competition gives up, and quality plummets and prices rise because, what else are you gonna buy, and where are you gonna buy it? This is the reason you can't even search for something obvious and explicit on Amazon without scrolling through dozens of items that are "sponsored" and not at all what you were asking for. This is the reason why, when you buy a new washing machine or refrigerator or TV, to replace the one you've had for 20 years, you figure you're doing well if it lasts _five_ years, and might well have to have it serviced within that span. But, as long as you can buy AA batteries in 50 packs for 2/3 the price of name brands, or ask your phone for something and get a spoken answer in less than 5 seconds, or have KZread playing on your refrigerator door ... nobody cares. Convenience and cost will trump any concerns about suffocating competition, or environmental or labor concerns. But, we'll also sit back and rah rah when someone says something snarky like "hey Bezos, why don't you stay up there in space? " Hypocrites. All of us.

@perfectallycromulent

Жыл бұрын

well, as a mobility impaired person in the middle of boston, i can tell you that retail prices for food and other things are more expensive here from national chains than Amazon - except for Trader Joe's - and they won't deliver or give me the rest of what comes with a prime subscription. it might not be like that in cheaper parts of the country, but it is here.

@Avistew

Жыл бұрын

I'm the same. I knew there were problems with the big companies but they're practical so I felt guilty but kept using Amazon for instance. But like you, the AT&T precedent opened my eyes on the fact that the big companies aren't just crushing the small ones, which in itself is bad already, but in doing so they're preventing us from discovering so many things we can't even imagine. They're practical now, like it was practical to be able to make a phone call rather than write a letter, but smartphones and the Internet are so much more and we shouldn't miss something as big just because we like next-day shipping.

4:50 "It turns out that ending a monopoly is almost always a good thing" damn straight. I'm reminded of a relevant quote "When you don't have to compete, you don't have to care". Big companies don't want competition, they never have. They want money, all the money, and they'd like nothing more than to be your only option so they can charge whatever they want in the knowledge you can't do anything about it.

When john oliver said ok google it activated the assistant on my phone 😂

As soon as you see Jim Cramer endorses something, you know that something is disturbingly wrong about it.

@Matt-xc6sp

Жыл бұрын

The inverse Cramer index and the Pelosi ETF are next level indicators used by real pros

@siddhantbanerjee3328

Жыл бұрын

He's either wrong about everything, or maliciously deceiving his audience. The inverse Cramer ETF is a fairly successful one

@rogersmith7396

Жыл бұрын

Bullshit artist.

@pamelacass9642

Жыл бұрын

I'm always amazed that he manages to keep a show and to not get kicked...off. 🤔

@A_T216

Жыл бұрын

Flashback to the "And Now This" compilation of his love for Chipotle lmao

John Oliver will never read this comment or reply to it but this man is a genius! I wish there were more of him out there.

@aandwdabest

5 ай бұрын

He does his job quite well and fits my niche for infotainment.

Shortly after 11:50 , during the can dolphins love rant, you can faintly hear someone in the audience laughing their ass off and pleading with John, “STOP”

@bradleywalker8642

6 ай бұрын

11:56

There was actually an episode of Hawaii Five-O where Microsoft paid them to say "Bing It" it was hilarious and got them incessantly mocked.

@adde9506

Жыл бұрын

Oh, man, the product placement it that show was PAINFUL.

@RideAcrossTheRiver

Жыл бұрын

Don't even SAY Bing

@paulbonaventura4969

Жыл бұрын

@@RideAcrossTheRiver And the subway sandwhiches!!

@RideAcrossTheRiver

Жыл бұрын

@@paulbonaventura4969 They smell like a log with tomato farts!

@Sem5626

Жыл бұрын

i'm a software engineer, i always tell people at work to "bing it" when they have a question guaranteed to get a laugh every time

John didn't mention, that the ad space on those free websites are mostly also provided by Google. So basically Google is protection itself from paying ad revenue. And I'm wondering how many smart devices got woken up by John saying "Ok, ok Google" at 15:10 🙂

@SmallSpoonBrigade

Жыл бұрын

There wasn't time for it in the video, but Google's purchase of Doubleclick was a blatant violation of Clayton, but antitrust regulations haven't been enforced in years. They'll force a promise for something shiny that has basically no enforcement mechanism and call it good.

@ichijofestival2576

Жыл бұрын

In so, so many ways, Google *is* the competition small businesses have to fight. The biggest part of any online business is getting into those top results. Google's algorithm determines who gets top results. But people can also just pay Google to get top results on specific searches. People can also set up their entire sites according to Google's "guidelines" to improve their rankings. They can embed Google's tags, use Google's tools, and advertise in Google's ad network. The reality is that two small businesses competing with each other are more likely to spend their time and energy competing with Google.

@christopherweise438

Жыл бұрын

I never made that connection with Google (pun intended). If your advertisers are yourself you're not worried about losing sponsors.

@donsanders9675

Жыл бұрын

Also, on KZread, small content providers are constantly under threat of "demonitization" for issues real or imaginary. Does KZread take the videos down? Only in the most egregious cases. They usually just keep the videos up with ads and keep all of the money for themselves.

@runed0s86

Жыл бұрын

It activated on the phone that I am using to watch this video lol

I noticed that even when the item is for sale from another seller for less the shipping costs can be outrageous. Then you end up ordering from Amazon even if you don't like Amazon or their policies against unions. Some of us can afford time but not money.

@Chris-ks4sw

Жыл бұрын

Theyre also a lot of times 5-10x the expected shipping time that amazon can

@moonman239

Жыл бұрын

Amazon has one thing going for it, it's called an economy of scale. Amazon has massive warehouses, its own delivery services, and possibly other tricks up its sleeve to cut product and shipping costs.

Well most of the other options on Amazon when you do scroll down, usually have a high amount of shipping which either works out to the same price or works out to higher.

The dolphin rant accurately describes the rabbit hole I fall down in almost every time I Google something.

@gabor6259

Жыл бұрын

Use s t a r t p a g e instead.

@victorpradha9946

Жыл бұрын

But really...Dolphins (as cute and adorable as they are publicized as being, are capable of incredibly abhorrent behaviors). John went there...and it needed to be done! Join my awareness campaign. Dolphins ARE A$$hole Mammals It's True (DAAM IT)!

@SuperFlamethrower

Жыл бұрын

@@gabor6259 Will KZread ban me if I type out "startpage"?

@davel9514

Жыл бұрын

@@SuperFlamethrower No. I've been using it for about 6 months. It's got a couple of bugs (such as if I make too many searches, it thinks I'm a bot, which is why I removed it from my work computer as searching images a lot is part of my job), but overall it's pretty decent. Best feature about it is that it 100% does NOT log or sell your search history.

@warrenbuffet2848

Жыл бұрын

cool start up line for a sex date, you definetly need to use it when sitting on a couch.

When I lived in the U.S. I spent almost $200/month for web/cable/phone. Now living in Greece I pay less than $75/month for all three and it's just as good or better. U.S. is The Land of The Gouge

@rogwheel

Жыл бұрын

You are absolutely correct. Greece is a beautiful country!

@markcab2055

Жыл бұрын

@@rogwheel Yeah its all fun and games in Greece til the Gov. steals all your money in your bank account.

@FlatulentWhale

Жыл бұрын

I get 1.5gbit fiber internet with TV in Thailand for $30/mo. 1gbit in a non fiber market (most of them) is around $120/mo in the US.

@JimAllen-Persona

Жыл бұрын

I just paid my web/cable/phone bill 15 min ago and it was $298, $129 of which is Internet (300MB). Insane.

@hulagu3068

Жыл бұрын

Greek income is also a third probably

The dolphins bit was soooo funny

25:35 that aged like milk

the fact that I'm watching this on youtube makes this even funnier.

@resikchanel843

Жыл бұрын

Last fight kzread.info/dash/bejne/n5yhw7WCgqu6ido.html

@jenniferstine8567

Жыл бұрын

It's the only way I can because I don't want to pay for HBO, which would come via Amazon Prime. I may not get the full episode, but at least I get the bulk of it. An even bigger problem is that I pay for KZread Red so I can watch things without 10 ads every 5 minutes or so. I'm likely to fall asleep during the second ad, then completely forget what I was watching by ad 8, and by ad 10 have stopped caring. However the view count goes up whether I enjoyed it or not. It then tells the algorithm to suggest that more often. There's a lot of crap videos that I stop or tune out. However there are some people who will be interested just because they saw it and think it's a popular must have. Also I'm guilty of leaving the TV on Amazon Prime for my cat. You know the company is bad when someone in another country that is looking for a job in the US would take any other job than Amazon.

@OGimouse1

Жыл бұрын

@@jenniferstine8567HBO quit Amazon Prime last October, my guy. You have to get it directly from the horse's mouth now

@DennisMoore664

Жыл бұрын

@@jenniferstine8567 You can usually watch the full episode from some random KZread uploader on Sunday evening after (or sometimes while) the show was (is) being broadcast. Do a search on KZread using the show name and you'll probably find it if you scroll down a bit. It really is worth watching the full show most of the time.

@blaze556922

Жыл бұрын

Not sure why you think that's funny. KZread is amazing and free. you were just able to share a thought with anyone in the world that comes to this channel and wants to read it and you have a problem with that?

I used to laugh when people said that we needed less regulations. Now I cry. I don't know how so many people are blind to the fact that if you let rich people do whatever they want, we will all end up slaves to them. They will consolidate power amongst themselves and force you to stand with an empty bowl and beg for more while they laugh at you.

@NH4Ukraine2

Жыл бұрын

That's exactly right. They use financial power to create more political power to create more financial power.

@slipknotpurity00

Жыл бұрын

I have similar arguments with my conservative friends who all rant about labor unions like trained drones while complaining that they are getting screwed over by their job and are unfairly paid and have shit benefits. Yeah dip shit, unions are the only negotiating tool regular people have versus business owning oligarchs. Fox News brainwashing and the like have set back our country 30 years in terms of progress.

@nomore6167

Жыл бұрын

People aren't blind to it; they want to become part of it. They want to be the ones looking down and laughing at others.

@chichi3701

Жыл бұрын

Exactly, that's just human nature. The more powerful, consolidated and unregulated corporations get, the more they squeeze competition out, and engage in predatory practices.

@molybdaenmornell123hopp5

Жыл бұрын

@@chichi3701 A lot of people don't actually want to enslave others, but even a selfish minority can make a decent life much harder for the rest, tempting them to break their good principles. The decent need to get better at banding together.

I love that Last Week Tonight are using clips from tapes featured on Red Letter Media. I recognize a ton of these clips!

I'm glad there was someone that laughs like a snake in the audience as that's something I've always enjoyed, I'm not being sarcastic, it's my favourite form of laughter. :)

@marpinteacup6395

Жыл бұрын

I thought it was my dog (she makes a lot of sniffing noises and strange noises), and was delighted to learn it was a person in the video

Basically, anytime a big business says, "this will hurt small business'" you do exactly that thing.

@johnsmith-cw3wo

Жыл бұрын

same when big business says, "unions will lower wages''

I hope these bills pass. The internet has sadly been dominated by monopolies for far too long.

@JOEDIRTERULEZ

Жыл бұрын

THIS ONLY HAPPENED AFTER THEY BANNED RACIST, PE- DOS AND BOTS ACCOUNTS AND WEBSITES......... DONT FALL FOR THEYRE WHINNING..... THE TECH RACE WITH CHINA IS TOO CLOSE FOR THEM TO BE GETTING IN WAY OF STUFF THEY DONT UNDERSTAND. THESE COMPANIES PROTECT YOU FROM VIRUSES, SPYWARE, MALWARE AND RANSOMWARE!!!! DONT ATTACK OUR ONLY PPL IN OUR CORNER. WHAT ABOUT BIG OIL, BIG MARKETS, BIG MEAT

@MakeSomeNoiseAgencyPlaylists

Жыл бұрын

oh really

@Hoeslapper17

Жыл бұрын

@@MakeSomeNoiseAgencyPlaylists Yeah really. Pay attention to what's going on around you

@CyberData4

Жыл бұрын

I don't. Last thing I want is politicians gutting the internet. So then the people that bribe them get to call the shots like everything else? Meh, no thanks.

@sterger7

Жыл бұрын

But if these companies don't have monopolies how will liberals be able to suppress news stories that impact elections? How will they be able to silence speech they don't agree with? Ugh....poor dems..you don't realize you're going to give away all your evil power by breaking up evil corps.

Someone in this studio audience is doing a great impersonation of a laughing snake. Once you hear it, you won't unhear it.

@Natalie37854

3 ай бұрын

I thought I was the only one who noticed. It was driving me crazy 😂

The dolphin tangent is possibly the best thing I've ever heard 🤣

20:30 Also, note the wording - "...we have a policy against using SELLER-SPECIFIC data..." If you've EVER worked around data in your life, you know that is, at a minimum, code for "...BUT we still use aggregate data." In other words, they may have a policy that says they are not allowed to go look at CandleSeller209's sales numbers specifically to determine what knock-off scents of candle to roll out, but if someone notices that CandleSeller209 sure seems to be selling a lot of "maple bacon" scented candles, they will look at "aggregated data" across "all 3rd party candle selling stores" to find trends, like "look at all these maple bacon candles sales..." Or even if there isn't a specific store or product that drives it, they'll just occasionally look at all candle seller data regardless--aggregated together so as not to be "seller-specific"--and start producing knock-offs of the top 5 selling scents--in aggregate--hurting many sellers and not just one. ANY time someone makes sure to include terms like "user-specific" or "seller-specific" or "age-specific" or whatever when talking about data, then I *guarantee* you they are only including that to obfuscate the fact that they ARE using aggregated data for the same basic purpose. A lot of times, this isn't a bad thing and can even be helpful (like noticing that 25% of users get stuck on this one page in your website so you redesign the page to prevent user confusion; that's a good use of aggregated data). But in situations like this, where the host has aggregated data about their, and your, competition (and yourself), and can use it to harm your business, that crafty wording is bad and doesn't mean that they aren't using your own data against you. It's just slightly more indirect than direct is all. Though not by much.

As a side note: the REALLY infuriating thing about tech companies is they still pay little to no federal taxes...

@herbttryhard7353

Жыл бұрын

Look at Nike or any other big Company all of them pay the absolut Minimum it's not only big tech

@resikchanel843

Жыл бұрын

Last fight kzread.info/dash/bejne/n5yhw7WCgqu6ido.html

@OGimouse1

Жыл бұрын

@@herbttryhard7353 That doesn't make it more okay

@herbttryhard7353

Жыл бұрын

@@OGimouse1 i agree 100%

@baronvonlimbourgh1716

Жыл бұрын

Because they are monopolies and control the policy that is made. Would you write policy that taxed you? Ofcourse not, you would be the only one with an exception lol.

Das ist ein guter Beitrag. Er gibt mir gute Impulse für den Wirtschaftsunterricht - Thema "Monopole".

I used to manage an ecommerce company (I was the GM, not the owner). Amazon absolutely screws its 3rd party sellers over and treats them like garbage. But no matter what we did, we couldn't get any other channel (Walmart, Newegg, Rakutan, our own website) to do more than dent Amazon's share of the business, they always accounted for >60% of our total sales. And even that percentage put us in a far better position than a lot of sellers who sell 90% or greater of their stuff on Amazon. I even had to fight an account suspension where we had literally done what Amazon Seller Support explicitly told us to do (in writing)...and then we were suspended for doing it. It took me almost two months (and thousands of dollars to a former Amazon employee who now has a lucrative business getting accounts reinstated) to get the account reinstated and in the meantime I had to lay off a lot of people. Its also fun because Amazon doesn't tell you WHY you have been suspended, you have to write groveling letters confessing to everything you think you MIGHT have done wrong and if you are lucky...one of them will work. I could go on (and on) but I don't see the need to write an entire book on Amazon's predatory, monopolistic, unethical, and dishonest business practices in a KZread comment.

@asdfhklljfztvvw3686

Жыл бұрын

Your insight is appreciated, though 👍

@delphinedelphinedelphine

Жыл бұрын

honestly, you probably could write that book. and then watch as it gets sold on Amazon :)

@jonathanscott476

Жыл бұрын

@@asdfhklljfztvvw3686 oh boy do I have stories…but TBH it doesn’t really matter because Amazon owns too many Congresscritters of both parties, there is no way this passes at all and even if it it somehow miraculously did pass, it would have no teeth. I’ll give another fun freebie about dealing with Amazon as a seller. You have extremely strict metrics to meet so far as ship time, orders absolutely must leave your warehouse within something like 24 hours (subject to some slight wiggle room on weekends, depending on how you structure your shipping). All well and good right? I mean we all hate getting stuff late…however AMAZON itself doesn’t hold itself nor it’s FBA fulfillment to the same standard. Noticed your Prime orders coming more and more laughably late? That’s because Amazon may or may not get the order out the door in time…but wow betide the seller who does the same thing. This is probably another way of pushing sellers into FBA, where Amazon gets a bigger piece of the revenue. One more. Amazon’s bots constantly crawl the web looking for your other listings not on Amazon. You are not allowed to sell the product elsewhere, say on your own website, for les then what Amazon thinks is a “comparable price” to your amazon listing. However that price is ALSO something amazon looks at, and if the algorithm decides you are selling it for too much on Amazon itself…the listing is taken down. There is no appeal. Selling on your website for less (since no amazon fees)? Amazons bots find out and your whole account could get nuked. Sometimes you have to sell an item at a loss on amazon and try to slowly raise the price over time until you are actually making a profit since raising it more than ~15 percent or so tends to trigger the algorithm.

@melissaburbury8256

Жыл бұрын

This is without a doubt one of the most disturbing rays of light this topic has been shed on me. It’s clear as day now that Amazon tactually & intentionally junk punches the other [the sellers] businesses by knowingly tying them up in litigious and (undoubtedly) expensive legal, contractual tittle tattle that in turn delivers a very real, very damaging blow to these 3rd party companies. If anyone has any insight or suggestions on how a difference can be made or how to help enter this bill into the conversation - I’m all ears. & I’m fine with having to old bags on the hill as long as they’re contributing to the future of this economy. Are they willing to come to the table and talk about it..or are they not? That is the question.

@jonathanscott476

Жыл бұрын

@@melissaburbury8256 since I’m on a roll and heavily caffeinated, let’s talk about another way Amazon screws over it’s sellers, this time domestic (Canada included). Everyone who uses Amazon in any capacity knows how a listing works, there is a single listing for a specific product and then all sellers list under that listing. Selling a copy of “Starfighters of Adumar”? You don’t create a new listing, you simply list under the existing one, alongside everyone else selling that book. But for nonbooks things can get a little murkier, the same OEM widget might be sold under multiple listings as each importer slaps their own label on the widget and sells it on its own listing. Okay fair enough, that’s hardly a new thing, lots of companies sell the same product. In computers, Clevo makes laptops that multiple companies sell as their own. But where Amazon’s special brand of bullcrap comes in is with custom designed widgets that you yourself designed and had made overseas for your own exclusive use. Amazon heavily markets FBA to China, has special events to entice Chinese sellers to list on Amazon, and tries to make it as easy as possible for them to sell in America. Nothing wrong with this right? More products means more choices and better prices? Not necessarily. What many times happens is that your widget will be cheaply ripped off and then the seller will start listing under your own listing, stealing sales from you. Customers receive a poor imitation of the product they ordered, and they leave bad feedback. This then drives the listing’s rank down until it’s totally destroyed and then the seller moves on to the next listing to copy and destroy. Look up the sad tale of a product called Brush Hero for more sordid details. Also, when returns happen (because people return the crappy knockoff), Amazon mingles their return with the actual product returns, and if they decide it’s “new condition” they will return it to your FBA inventory. So now someone orders from you on the listing, not your knockoff competitor…and they still get the crappy knockoff product. Amazon does almost nothing to prevent this. “Private label” and “brand registry” is fractionally better than nothing, but Amazon does a very poor job of actually enforcing it. Sellers are ruined and driven out of business entirely thanks to Amazon enabling behavior like this. Also lots of Chinese sellers buy confidential data (internal Amazon data, the same data Amazon uses to decide which product to rip off for a new Amazon basics knockoff) about whatever listing they are going to target…directly from corrupt Amazon mid level execs in China, giving them an even bigger advantage in targeting your successful listing. Amazon basically does nothing about this. And this again only scratches the surface of how Amazon screws domestic third party sellers.

that "fuck you flipper" is legendary

As a computer scientist and someone who read “Big Data: Everybody lies”, this John’s presentation is just amazing. It truly highlights the problems of these big companies. Google, for example, has a lot of cleve machinery to identify what is the best model to present their information based on access to a huge amount of users. They run experiments for everything they do and that has real-world validation, because the ones validating their ideas are real users. They are the supreme gods when it comes to data harvesting and understanding human behavior.

@AnonYmous-spyonmepls

Жыл бұрын

Yep, and they even manage to convince people that giving up their data is good for them. That shows the control they have. Imagine being able to know all market demand, for things that don’t even exist. Having algorithms that can accurately predict any market is basically game over for competition. Remember all those trillions they pile up are basically coming from the customer’s pockets so their products/services must have an extremely large profit margin that could be way less with proper competition

@molybdaenmornell123hopp5

Жыл бұрын

Human online behaviour

@Dunkeyhote

Жыл бұрын

Yes and they provide us with a service for free that is very useful.

@AnonYmous-spyonmepls

Жыл бұрын

@@Dunkeyhote its not free they made trillions

@royce9018

Жыл бұрын

Lol

Fun fact: this also affects how I teach my students to search for information. I have to teach them to actually follow the links, not just read what’s on the search page. The search page lacks context, and is sometimes even wrong. They have to actually go to the SOURCE. I have to always tell them: google is not a source! And if they don’t follow the link, then all they have to cite is “google”

@AzizidarkReborn

Жыл бұрын

As a former college student, I don't believe you should let students cite google as it is not a source; it's an algorithm that takes from other sources like Wikipedia and never tells anyone. If wikipedia articles can be barred from being a fair source in academia for unreliability (despite being far better monitored), I think google should too.

@alex_blue5802

Жыл бұрын

I have gotten completely false information from those google answers. It just goes by whatever is most popular and doesn't take into account if the article is factual or an opinion piece.

@michellebennett4015

Жыл бұрын

Thank you for teaching media literacy. This country needs it SO BAD.

@kattaylor2919

Жыл бұрын

@@AzizidarkReborn that was my general point of this comment. I DON’T let them use google as a source. I tell them it’s like saying your source is “the library” or “the internet.” It doesn’t tell you anything.

@kattaylor2919

Жыл бұрын

@@michellebennett4015 We really do! It’s a key thing in teaching now!

ANYONE ELSE HEAR THE FUCKING SNAKE LAUGHING IN THE FRONT ROW

@beowulf2772

7 ай бұрын

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25:32 ...and we determined THAT WAS A LIE!

Bezos: "We have a policy but I can't garantee [it] hasn't been violated" Now imagine your daughter's soccer coach says this.

@Gillsing

Жыл бұрын

Seems like a reasonable reply to any "yes or no" question when one person has to speak for many. Which might not be the case with a soccer coach.

@Chaosmancer7

Жыл бұрын

@@Gillsing Does it? Because if the question is "have you ever used third party data?" And your answer is "We have a policy but I can't say that policy hasn't been violated." Then your answer is actually "Yes, we have" Because even as someone who hasn't worked for a major international company, I'm more than aware of the difference between policies [that we enforce] and "policies" [that exist on paper and everyone is told to ignore]

@yourmommashouse

Жыл бұрын

@Clyde2 why is this spam now?

@bodenking

Жыл бұрын

That’s a perfect way to recontextualize an answer, I’m going to use this in the future

@lavishlavon

Жыл бұрын

ha _oh, im imagining my daughter's soccer coach is doin a _*_whole lot_*_ more than that if ya feel me.!_

Speaking as a Non-US citizen. Guys, please do this. The US Tech industry affects pretty much all of us

@phumelela7665

Жыл бұрын

@America Project Yes, and while we do that, it would really help things along if US citizens take action

Whoever's hissing in the audience instead of laughing, I hope your chicken is always under seasoned.

@thisusernameisnotlong8934

Жыл бұрын

Wait this show has actual audiences?

He is checking the tie down straps to make sure that his moonshine still doesn't fall out of his truck

That “f* you Flipper” was too heartfelt and low key broken to be just an act.

@PinkbubblegumPop

Жыл бұрын

🤣

@benw9949

Жыл бұрын

The dolphin and Peter have a torrid romance going.... :D Why do you think Peter was busy looking for the best surf spots when he wasn't looking for, you know, that other thing? Or looking for dolphins. (awkward, isn't it?)

I love how No MATTER where you pause a John Oliver video, it will always look like one of his thumbnails.

@resikchanel843

Жыл бұрын

Last fight kzread.info/dash/bejne/n5yhw7WCgqu6ido.html

@brandonayong5823

Жыл бұрын

That's because he doesn't have " Clickbait" Thumbnails. It's literally him talking

@xAlexZifko

Жыл бұрын

no shit. the screen space is 100% him and a clip bubble. hes sitting at a desk that covers half his body. theres like one of four distinct movements he can make. what internet based university did you attend?

@sliedogg

Жыл бұрын

I smoke weed too.

@maxwellraver4672

Жыл бұрын

It's the hands, isn't it?

Im gonna take a wild guess that those two bills didnt pass

I long for the day when KZread isn't the only feasible video-sharing platform.

Wow, everyone needs to know about that AT&T breakup. "The breakup of AT&T was actually a key step in producing the Internet revolution." If Republicans were as adamant about breaking up monopolies as they were in the twentieth century, what new technological advancements might break through once smaller companies have the space to innovate?

@rubaiyat300

Жыл бұрын

Just so long as they KEEP it broken up. What ultimately happened is we lost Bell Labs in the bargain and the most rapacious, aggressive regional Baby Bell that was formed from the carcass of old AT&T murdered and ate all the others. Eventually reforming into new AT&T...which everyone hates.

@pimpslickness

Жыл бұрын

Yeah Google is just full to the brim with conservative voters. Am I right? Those silicon valley tycoons just vote Republican out of pure reflex.

@mrt094

Жыл бұрын

Government creates monopolies.

@murlocmaster6192

Жыл бұрын

@@mrt094 no, people who want power and or don't think of the consquences of their actions make monopolies. So people make monopolies. Just like how we do everything else shitty and horrible without a thought

@MrTtam07

Жыл бұрын

So we won’t talk about the gobs of money big tech has poured into democrat race all over the country… Orr that doesn’t matter right 🤣

What's frustrating is that for people living in countries outside of the USA, the legislation of these companies has a massive impact on us but we literally have no say on these companies are held accountable. We are at the mercy of the corporate corruption of the US government.

@lubossoltes321

Жыл бұрын

Not really. They have to abide by the laws of the local country they are doing business in. Just look up Belgium/Netherlands and computer games (loot box gambling mechanics). The problem is, EU moves even slower than US does.

@brag0001

Жыл бұрын

@@lubossoltes321 the thing is: the US does push its legislation onto other countries through trade treaties making local laws more and more difficult to enact. The EU is strong enough to stand its ground, and it's even guilty of the same. But many smaller countries don't have that luxury. Now, I don't think that the push off the EU and US for similar rules world wide is a bad thing without any merit. Many countries have used local laws to enable bribery and corruption in the past. But OP still has a point. He doesn't get to vote on those laws, yet is affected by them one way or the other. Whether, and how, this can, or even should, be fixed is a whole other topic ...

@vill007b3

Жыл бұрын

@@lubossoltes321That's not true. The EU is literally at the forefront of tech regulation.

@abel_underwater

Жыл бұрын

@@vill007b3 Buddy, I live in Germany, trust me we’re not😂 almost spat out my coffee. We’re still mauling over which charger to use. FROM 2010! The day the US/UK pass stringent legislation, will be the day these major tech companies fall in line, until then, they just laugh in our faces and hush up our politicians by writing them checks. Let’s not kid ourselves to feel better man

@abel_underwater

Жыл бұрын

It’s like people don’t realize the benefits that come with being a “superpower” sometimes💀The ability to make an impact worldwide by enacting local decisions made from within said country. For example: Here in Bavaria, Germany we could pass a legislation keeping these major tech companies in check, but that wouldn’t move the needle *one-bit* internationally. Same legislation is passed somewhere in LA, San Francisco, Dallas, or NY, and it would create drastic world-wide change, since most of the major tech companies reside/HQd within the US. It sucks sometimes, but that’s the leisure of producing products that consumers (in both private/public sector) want in high demand, and having the most powerful military, economy in the world to back it up. This goes for nearly every sector too, not just tech, hence why most of John’s videos are about America.

I remember years ago there used to be a search engine called, “Bullseye”. I could always find exactly what I was after and it wasn’t on Google or Amazon. As it is, I have never nor will I ever purchase anything from Amazon whilst their atrocious worker conditions exist.

Yeah this is a truly great segment. We need anti-trust action asap, on pretty much everything. Big tech, agriculture, meat, oil, grocery stores, news/media networks, big pharma, basically every industry.

The fact that everyone from left to right agrees on this shows just how important this is.

@MrSen4lifE

Жыл бұрын

The culture war between "the left" and "the right" in the US is largely driven by tech monopolies who want everyone focusing on anything but them. It's definitely about time they get the attention.

@bluntforcelIama

Жыл бұрын

same was said about net neutrality years ago, and right to repair recently in california, we the public can yell, but it wont matter. these tech companies spend lots of money to buy lawmakers. i say that knowing full well i know the ironey of typing this out into a google owned website.

@JOEDIRTERULEZ

Жыл бұрын

THIS ONLY HAPPENED AFTER THEY BANNED RACIST, PE- DOS AND BOTS ACCOUNTS AND WEBSITES......... DONT FALL FOR THEYRE WHINNING..... THE TECH RACE WITH CHINA IS TOO CLOSE FOR THEM TO BE GETTING IN WAY OF STUFF THEY DONT UNDERSTAND. THESE COMPANIES PROTECT YOU FROM VIRUSES, SPYWARE, MALWARE AND RANSOMWARE!!!! DONT ATTACK OUR ONLY PPL IN OUR CORNER. WHAT ABOUT BIG OIL, BIG MARKETS, BIG MEAT

@Smithpolly

Жыл бұрын

Possibly. On the other hand, it could be that you're only permitted to see the comments of people who agree with you.

@hunnybadger442

Жыл бұрын

Yeah this is what bipartisanship is... We all want the same things... and no one is getting what they need let alone what they want...

It’s interesting that AWS (Amazon Web Services) didn’t come up. I’ve very regularly heard that referred to as the “backbone of the internet.” So it is like a core component of the internet right now. In addition to functionally making Amazon a utility that society can’t easily get rid of, my understanding is that in the tech space it affects innovation because start ups have to be careful about using AWS or else Amazon may try to claim some aspect of ownership over their products. Also major university research facilities (and research facilities in general) heavily rely on AWS and and amazon servers to hold and manage large quantities of data. Like the Amazon fulfillment and consumer product side of things dominates so much of the conversation about Amazon but I think Amazon purposefully wants that to be the case. They are a utility but they don’t want to be viewed or regulated like one.

@applesaucey5362

Жыл бұрын

It also hides the shady shit the kindle side of the business is doing. Kindle market place is something around 90% or all digital book sales, and they can and will kick you off the platform with no explanation or justification, effectively killing the author. On top of that smaller authors pretty much need to be in the kindle unlimited program to start getting any traction, but part of the agreement of the kindle unlimited program prohibits them from putting the book on any other platform. Amazon effectively has a stranglehold on authors, and has the process of killing potential competitors literally built into its contracts. Meaning Amazon can effectively control what people read and they exercise their ability to do so. Which is something that should terrify people, but practically never gets talked about because their services are just infinitely more convenient then any "competitor"' because they've murdered all competition in the cradle.

@zeroelus

Жыл бұрын

And while there are competitors (MS Azure) they're infrequent enough that people who work on them can command a premium up to a certain point since there's not that many of us who work with them. But yeah, how many times in the last 2 years AWS having a bad day = the internet being crappy for many. This was a huge missed opportunity for this video, as well as maybe spending a minute with apple in regards to how random app approvals in their own platform can be, and how vague the feedback for fixing the app can be.

@Confron7a7ion7

Жыл бұрын

They do share a large portion of the market with Microsoft and Google but your argument still holds. If any of these 3 companies turned their servers off large sections of the internet simply stop working.

@stormburn1

Жыл бұрын

There's only so much they could cover, and stores (app and retail or otherwise) are more relatable to the typical viewer. There's hours and hours and pages of pages of aspects to cover for even a superficial understanding of it all. There's a surprising number of anti-competitive, monopolist corporations to an extent that it feels contradictory that so many "monopolies" can exist until you start to get a grasp of the staggering, hidden complexity of the world around us that these companies sell and govern. That our elected representatives have allowed this to go unchecked for decades is sickening.

@jabtrack123

Жыл бұрын

@@stormburn1 while I don’t disagree that there is only so much that can be covered in a single episode, I disagree with the concept of what is “relatable to the typical viewer”. I disagree especially in the context that the goal of this show is to spread information and provide a call to action. If you feel as tho the information you are covering is critical to the functioning of society, it makes little sense then to do one off episodes that barely scratch the surface of the issue. Also I think information about how the internet and web services are controlled and managed is very relatable to the majority of viewers. People are very invested in understanding how the web works and who controls what. Also as my original comment hinted, I think the fact Amazon is able to keep the focus of criticism on its fulfillment operations gives it so much room to fuck around in all it’s other endeavors. Edit: I have watched this show since its inception and I think it is generally positive. One thing I think they should embrace more, like how they did with coronavirus in 2020, is pick a set topic and do several episodes on it.

john oliver is that one guy that, no matter what he says, you will always respond with "hell yeah!".

big love to John and his team, you do amazing work

I'm 100% convinced he said "Okay....okay google!" JUST to wake up every google home device in the vicinity of every viewer. That's the kind of troll move he'd do, lol

@ScottMurrayBestFamilyCars

Жыл бұрын

To wake them up is to suggest they ever went to sleep. They don't sleep. They're always listening.

@ruby5787

Жыл бұрын

@@ScottMurrayBestFamilyCars Yes, obviously. I'm refering to it making the devices listen for something to respond to. So they'll start interrupting what you're trying to watch.

@anahitaariadne

2 ай бұрын

Worked with my phone😅

You're just absolutely the best J O. Don't ever change. You're brilliant. We're lucky to have you as a citizen here in the USA.

@sandaromo

Жыл бұрын

Just to point out for anyone who doesn't know, this is an HBO series, which is a part of Warner Media, which was completely (or largely) owned by AT&T. Warner Media is now owned by Discovery, but if I'm not wrong AT&T still has some shares in the company.

@aribantala

Жыл бұрын

@@sandaromo Even prior to this, John has been very critical with AT&T.

@jonbrand5068

Жыл бұрын

I agree with you but I think John Oliver is here on an entertainers Visa he's still a citizen of the UK

@aribantala

Жыл бұрын

@@jonbrand5068 He became a US Citizen in December 2019

@warthog473

Жыл бұрын

@@jonbrand5068 He may have a dual citizenship, if the U.S. still allows it. He did a guest spot with Stephen Colbert when he became a citizen and talked about the process and taking the citizenship test.

That “I’m going to Bing it” made me laugh so hard

Workers should own and control the means of production.

@Dennzer1

Жыл бұрын

✔

Conservatives online often express their desire to break up “big tech,” but when I mention that Elizabeth Warren was the only presidential candidate in 2020 who made that exact issue part of her platform, I never get a response of any kind

@jasonvargas7564

Жыл бұрын

It’s not up to conservatives this time, it’s up to Chuck Schumer and he’s just as bad as the republicans. He will let this bill sit there until after august and then it’ll be forgotten with the midterms coming right up

@Kuolonen

Жыл бұрын

It's pretty amazing to see conservative voters talk about how Republicans are going to take down the corrupt "Big Biz" any day now. Ok buddy, I'm sure the party that constantly cuts taxes for business and the rich will take on monopolies to help the little guy.

@technosound1104

Жыл бұрын

But the rest of her policies are so contradictory to conservatism that it is really tough to support her.

@matthewjswider

Жыл бұрын

Besides the fact that she’s a bold faced liar? One good deed doesn’t undo an entire lifetime of gaming the system and lying to the public.

@krisfrederick5001

Жыл бұрын

Sure you do, but from whom?

Living in Alaska, it's easier for me to skip the Amazon company sales because 90% of the time, they won't ship to me. So I really learned how to use the other sellers list because I always need to find a smaller business that will ship to me. Having said that, I cancelled my prime membership this year and have stopped ordering online for the most part (some things I still do).

@mickymickle2764

Жыл бұрын

glad to see another person out there who seeks other places to buy from, albeit for a different reason. If I'm looking to purchase something, I might find it on Amazon first but I shop around and have found the same item for less elsewhere. Have never signed up for prime and no intentions to ever sign up. 1) where I live, highly unlikely to get fat shipping anyway and 2) if I need something that quickly, there are generally local options. get off my butt and go get it! gotta love the 'free' 2-day shipping... it can take up to a week for it to ship, doesn't count days until it's going out the door!

A John rant about dolphins & also never leaving google is exactly what I needed today ❤️❤️❤️

So much helpful informations. … thank you John

I swear to god, members of Congress get more vacation time than anyone else. With how little they actually ever get done, they have a lot of nerve taking all these recesses.

@ILuvAyeAye

Жыл бұрын

It's rarely vacation, they go back to their home state to campaign. Sadly, that's their actual job, and where most of their effort goes - getting people there to elect them.

@t1mmah

Жыл бұрын

And if they get extra pissy, they will shut the government down.

@appalachiabrauchfrau

Жыл бұрын

@@t1mmah and its always over THEIR paycheck, screw the nat guard or any other gov employee, right? THEIR budget hasn't been agreed on, so they MUST throw a fit and get time off to pout while the rest of the gov employees work without pay.