2k25, what's the worst enormous tech company?

Larry and David Ellison already formed Paramount Skydance (which includes CBS), and may soon control...

Tik Tok (Oracle is working with Silver Lake and Andreessen Horowitz to buy it, in a deal negotiated by...the white house?)

and are bidding to take control of Time Warner Discovery, which owns CNN

2025 could be the Ellison's year to finally lose their underdog status for evil and really step into the spotlight

i'm back on microsoft now i think. we've come full circle

what's microsoft's case this year?

supporting israel with genocide software whilst also spearheading the massive AI bubble that's going to end the US economy

Palantir seems the most big-brother evil at this moment

X/Twitter

^^

X/Twitter as an extension of Elon Musk's ego and reflection of his politics, certainly qualifies as enormously evil, but does it qualify as an "enormous tech company" by any other measures?

I’m even more old school I think Digital Electronics can make a big evil comeback

nintendo is the worst enormous tech company. no nintendogs at the last nintendo direct, what gives

X/Twitter as an extension of Elon Musk's ego and reflection of his politics, certainly qualifies as enormously evil, but does it qualify as an "enormous tech company" by any other measures?

While they are technically separate companies, I tend to think of Musk's companies (X, Tesla, SpaceX and its subsidiary Starlink) almost as a single entity given shared management. And I find Twitter/X more worrisome than Facebook, Google, etc of late because a widely-used social network has been actively repurposed as a platform to boost far-right ideologies across the world (such as AfD in Germany) as well as in its home country. Some will chime in saying other tech companies have done this too, but for those it tends to be a passive rather than active effort, such as algorithms feeding far-right content to people who view other far-right content. Not their CEO retweeting posts from bigots, misogynists, and Nazis.

Oh, and all of those Musk properties range from the strongest in their field to outright monopolies

so yes, enormous tech company

I thought these were polls, yes X by far the worst

The Elonigarchy - X/Tesla/Palantir = no contest

I thought these were polls

unfortunately due to budget cuts and the loss of a key grant, polls on the worst tech company threads have been sacked for the forseeable future :(

Whenever I see a picture of Larry Ellison I think it's Mickey Rourke:
https://wordpress.wbur.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/AP25253632194872-1000x667.jpg

The explicitly, psychotically fascist Palantir gets my vote:
https://www.businessinsider.com/palantir-ceo-alex-karp-calls-company-anti-woke-revenue-surge-2025-11

Pretty amusing tale from Judy Chicago about her failed experience with Google here:

https://news.artnet.com/art-world/judy-chicago-google-2741752

We were told that Google wanted to turn the Thompson Center into a space that was so warm and hospitable that it would entice employees to go to the office rather than stay home and work remotely in their pajamas; it seems that many young people are reluctant to engage in the synergy that arises from face-to-face encounters. As I have spent a great deal of time attempting to “soften” the male-built environment through my work, I seemed to be a perfect choice.

hmmm

When The Dinner Party was shown in a run-down section of the city, it drew so many people to the area that it began its gentrification.

hmm

the name “Judy Chicago” makes me think she’s the sister of Nathan Detroit

assholes gonna asshole

When Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg walked into a Los Angeles courtroom Wednesday to testify in a trial that could hold social media companies responsible for harming minors, he was seen escorted in by a team of people wearing the Meta Ray-Ban artificial intelligence glasses.

That prompted Judge Carolyn B. Kuhl to issue a stern warning about the wearable tech accessory, which can record video and audio and livestream.

“If you have (recorded), you must delete that, or you will be held in contempt of the court,” Kuhl said, according to CNBC. Recording of any kind is not allowed in the courtroom.

“This is very serious," the judge warned.

(my ex works for them and we actually had a early pair of these raybans on a trip to Zion canyon a few years ago)

The social media company Meta and the video streaming service YouTube harmed a young user with design features that were addictive and led to her mental health distress, a jury found on Wednesday, a landmark decision that could open social media companies to more lawsuits over users’ well-being.

Meta and YouTube must pay $3 million in compensatory damages for pain and suffering and other financial burdens. Meta is responsible for 70 percent of that cost and YouTube for the remainder.

The bellwether case, which was brought by a now 20-year-old woman identified as K.G.M., had accused social media companies of creating products as addictive as cigarettes or digital casinos. K.G.M. sued Meta, which owns Instagram and Facebook, and Google’s YouTube over features like infinite scroll and algorithmic recommendations that she claimed led to anxiety and depression.

The jury of seven women and five men will deliberate further to decide what punitive damages the companies should pay for malice or fraud.

um, can we get a class action lawsuit on that one with 7 billion people?

LG

https://thecybersecguru.com/news/lg-smart-tv-spying-investigation/

Not surprised. I keep mine totally offline, which seems to work:

The research team’s only fully effective mitigation is disconnecting the LG television from any network permanently and using an external streaming device, an Apple TV, Chromecast, or similar box, for smart functionality. That removes the TV from the network entirely and leaves it as a pure display, driven by the external device’s HDMI output.

I have heard - though haven't verified - that in some markets disconnected LG TVs will try to connect to neighbouring connected LG TVs and use them as hotspots to get on the internet and upload. Which is mindblowing.

Holy shit - that would actually get me to sell this thing and get something entirely different.

Wow, not buying or recommending another lg tv. I’ve just booted ours from the network. I’m intrigued to go into the network logs and see what it’s been up to.

holy shit, I wonder what their old proprietary solar equipment does

batteries, panels, microinverters, all discontinued/abandoned within the last 5 years afaict

jesus!!

I had an LG phone years ago, fortunately a dumb phone

i don't know if prediction markets should be included here but i just saw the Polymarket ad featuring LeBron, Eli Manning, Spike Lee, Emily Ratajkowski, Leguizamo, and others, and it made me think much less of everyone involved considering the entire thing, just a bunch of extremely wealthy people who don't need the money advertising something that'll only take money away from people who need it.

spying smart TV's: they all do it, not just LG

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvFu343KNek

This makes me want to start a things the tv show Silicon Valley predicted thread…

uhh, sorry about the paywall - maybe someone else has a better link, but this is massively fucked up:

https://www.wired.com/story/san-francisco-orders-meta-to-stop-allowing-ai-child-abuse-ads/

and the response of "stfu cuck, we ran them outside of your city limits so fuck off" re: this stuff seems like something that should permanently sink a company but.... shrug emoji

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/big-tech/lg-strongly-denies-tv-security-claims-says-tracking-and-snooping-concerns-not-true-online-investigation-claims-216-000-000-spy-tvs-record-audio

(doubting emoji)

haha

https://gizmodo.com/if-meta-glasses-freak-you-out-wait-until-you-hear-about-the-new-apple-watch-features-2000809371

“Apple Watch is always on your wrist, and with Apple Intelligence on your iPhone, it’s the perfect device to help you stay aware of the sounds around you and keep track of your conversations,” Ron Huang, Apple’s VP of sensing and connectivity, said at the presentation.

vp of sensing and connectivity
vp of sensing

looks like "if you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear" carried the day

who the hell wants to keep track of their conversations? how is that useful?

People with a terrible working memory.

I use these “ear” things to “stay aware of the sounds around me”

playing back recent conversations will be a great way to settle disputes among friends and loved ones