Atlantic: A Googler's Anti-Diversity Screed Reveals Tech's Rotten Core. August 07, 2017 by Garret Vreeland in Computing, Consumption, Psychology, Internet, Programming Products have been transformed into services given away “free” as an excuse to extract data from users. That data is woven into an invisible lattice of coercion and control—not to mention as a source of enormous profit when sold to advertisers or other interested parties. Apps and websites are designed for maximum compulsion, because more attention means more content, and more content means more data and thereby more value. All that data is kept forever on servers corporations control, and which are engineered—if that’s the right word for it—in a way that makes them susceptible to attack and theft.And we wonder 'why Trump.' *snort*