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Stuff. and the utility value of facebook and twitter and other social media starts to go away. >> thats exactly right. i mean we dont want the garbage thats been propagated over these platforms to continue. you know, what well have is a dumpster fire of misinformation and hate on our hands. >> yeah. >> and the fact is that users will leave these platforms as quickly as they joined them. i mean, you know, the titans of the tech world -- this is not written in stone. at one i want po, my space and...

Infecting elections. but the fact of the matter is they dont vet people by the political persuasion and put them in campaigns and embed them as soldiers. it is a little bit laughable. >> this is the most expensive campaign in political history and parscale said gave them access to rural votes, right? places where not necessarily they see the ads that are running in the big cities. >> yes. >> how important is that aspect of social media when it comes to this political audience? >> well, its calle...

Dry. as you can see, people have been going to the grocery stores, loading up on supplies. this has not been one of those panic situations, but i think the hardest thing, phillip, has been for people especially in new orleans but all along the gulf coast here, folks who are on vacation. theyre just not paying attention. as they wake up today and they hear about a nine-foot storm surge, in some cases theyre coming from parts of the world where they dont even understand the english language that w...

Very familiar what happened there. the fact of the matter is, it also missed out on invasion. it wasnt just the anti trust laws. bill gates initially did not get the internet. he didnt get where computers were going. steve bomber was insulting mobile phones for the longest time. cycles of invasion facebook is not going to be -- remember when aol was so big and now it isnt? >> here is my question. doesnt mean it will happen the same way. >> right. >> i want -- >> unseen -- >> let me separate two ...

Microsoft you can say definitely covered that with the washington post. very familiar what happened there. the fact of the matter is, it also missed out on invasion. it wasnt just the anti trust laws. bill gates initially did not get the internet. he didnt get where computers were going. steve bomber was insulting mobile phones for the longest time. cycles of invasion facebook is not going to be -- remember when aol was so big and now it isnt? >> here is my question. doesnt mean it will happen t...

Those who were all that until became thats all. stop me if youve heard this before. when aol ruled the internet. ibm was laughing at microsoft. blackberry was all the rage. there was a time when sonys walkman was everywhere and the ipod was nowhere. when kmart was king and walmart was not. walmart was king and amazon was not. blockbuster before netflix. yahoo before google. print before broadcast. broadcast before cable. cable before the internet. industries that couldnt lose before encountering...

Online. >> and compuserve was for the tech savvy people. prodigy was for shopping and aol was the first one that had a vision to get everyone connected. [ computer handshake ] >> when i heard that sound, i cried a little bit because i knew there was a big adventure waiting for me. >> welcome. youve got mail. >> compuserve charged by the minute. it was like a taxicab. aols invention was to forget that and charge $19.95 a month, all you can eat. and that changed everything because now you could af...

>> one of the things that aol realizes is that america online cant be all 200 plus million people at once. you need little neighborhoods. so chat rooms become internet neighborhoods where people who share interests create their own little space. >> maybe you click on the chat button up here or go to the people connection, thats what america online calls it. and when you get there, click on a list of rooms to find different categories of room. >> when i was a kid, i didnt know any other black gay...

Emoticons. >> you were using texts to have a conversation that felt like a face-to-face communication. could you see the start of this new online culture. >> its a technological revolution thats changing the way we do everything, from making friends to falling in love. >> he was nice and he never gave me any of the come-on lines. it was always friendly. >> wait, youre telling me guys use pickup lines on a computer? >> uh-huh. >> as the internet grows, im finding information. i also want to find ...

Highway and who doesnt? >> the services were talking about today are commercial services. you spend money to get on there. theres no real regulation per se. you use your phone line and computer and you get online. >> and compuserve was for the tech savvy people. prodigy was for shopping and aol was the first one that had a vision to get everyone connected. >> when i heard that sound, i cried a little bit because i knew there was a big adventure waiting for me. >> welcome. youve got mail. >> comp...