Stanford is to blame for the excesses of Social Media

Even though I am an alumnus of Stanford Univ. M.S. Geology, 1973, I will not give to the university and I think that its political and social inclinations are much to blame for the failings of Social Media and for the political decay of this nation.

Freedoms are under threat because of the Conservative ideology that comes from many groups at Stanford and particularly in the business applications of technology from Stanford Engineering and Computer Science by the School of Economics and their result in the social use of "signals and codes" by companies like Google and Facebook. People who work for those companies should search their souls for if the way they have used technology is ethical. Ethical lapses have already been documented at Facebook and to a lessor extant at Google and Apple e.g.

Stanford Economics and Business have fostered too rapid monetization of technologies without tutoring people who manage and invest in Silicon Valley business as to their ethical responsibilities. It is bad enough that one action of a "Democratic Socialism" politics would be to apply sanctions to decisions made by leaders and venture capital and investors that have resulted in damage to the public. Engineers should endure liability when it can be determined that a design would have a negative effect on people. An example is the textarea comment box on Facebook, the engineers who maintain that know full well how it restricts what people can say and do. Facebook's business model is not sufficient justification or defense of that decision. Those engineers should be sued for damages even if they use the Nazi defense, "My boss told me to do it that way."