Former Vice President, climate activist and Apple board member Al Gore has a new scheme for Big Tech algorithms.
Speaking at the Bloomberg Green Summit at COP28, climate doom prophet Gore compared online algorithms to AR-15s and opined, “They ought to be banned.” He mourned how social media changed the fact that Americans supposedly had a “shared base of knowledge,” implying that individual control over what information they choose to access is dangerous for democracy. Gore sits on Apple’s board of directors.
“These devices are the enemies of self-government and they are the enemies of democracy,” Gore scare-mongered. He concluded by saying the quiet part out loud and urging for reforms to “democracy” and “capitalism” as well.
“Gore runs straight to the same answer that most leftists do when facing something they perceive as a…