At the Computer History Museum in Silicon Valley, it performs how technology found that place today. And there can be no better guidance for this history than Apple’s co-founder Steve Wozniaq.
In 1976, Wozniaq built Apple 1, and by this he and Steve Jobs manufactured a company. “Incredible time,” said Wozniaq. “Just came down to make a clean product.”
Wozniaq was the inventor, Jobs was the master salesman; And when Wozniak created Apple II, there was something new to sell the jobs: the first individual computer to display the color. “She was a machine that actually drove individual computers, as it was very funny,” said Wozniaq. “There are so many successes that are still boxes so far.”
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I asked, “You helped to start a computer revolution that took us today where we are today – good or bad?”
“Well, it was good,” Wozniaq replied, “until the Internet came and offered new business models, you know, how to have strength on other people and control a lot of customers. This is when something starts getting evil.”
And some of that “bad” happened to Steve Wozniaq, when a scam on YouTube was using his image to steal bitcoin.
“Of course it is fraud”
Wozniaq’s wife, Janet learned it from one of the victims. “I got an email on our web server, and said, ‘Are you going to send me my money?” And I wrote back and I said, ‘What are you talking about? ,
Scammers took a video of Wozniaq while talking about bitcoin. “And then, they put a good frame with a bitcoin address, [saying] If you send him any amount of bitcoin, he will double you, “Janet said.” Of course it is fraud. ,
“Some people said they lost their life savings,” Steve said.
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You may think that youtube, owned by Google, will be quick to take down a fraud video using the image of Apple’s co-founder, but you will be wrong. Steve said, “We have never reached youtube; our lawyer has got his lawyer.”
Vozniaq’s lawyer Brian Danitz said, “We have asked YouTube more often, and it keeps happening.”
so, Wozniaq sued YouTube From some of those who lost money in the bitcoin scam.
Jennifer Marian is one of those scams. “I sent 0.9 to bitcoin, at that time worth $ 59,000,” he said. Expecting to get more than $ 100,000 back, Marion said, “I got nothing.”
I asked, “You don’t think it’s great to come true? Doubling your money within minutes?”
“You know, in retrospect it seems so clear that it should be a scam,” said Marion, “but at that moment, I was just comfortable at home, YouTube, on a famous stage. I was watching a video from a verified business. We were watching it like a business transaction. Special, 50% if you’re buying a cash, I am looking at it, I am looking at it.
Wozniaq said, “This is a crime. You know, a good person, if you look at a crime, you step inside and you do something about it. You try to stop it.”
The Wozniaq’s case against YouTube is now tied to the court for five years, known as Section 230 by the federal law. Attorney Brian Danitz said, “Section 230 is a very broad law, which is not completely, the ability to bring any kind of case against these social media platforms.”
Section 230 of the Communications Decentric Act is sometimes called “26 words that form the Internet,”. It became a law in 1996. it reads:
“The user of any provider or any interactive computer service will not be considered as a publisher or speaker of any information provided by any other information material provider.”
“It says that anything is posted, they have no obligation,” said Wozniaq. “It is completely absolute.”
Google responded to our investigation about the Wozniaq’s trial with a statement by Jose Castaneda of Google Policy: “We take seriously the misuse of our platform and when we find out the violations, take action quickly … We have equipment for users who are to report channels that are applying their equality or business.”
Janet Wozniaq, however, says, YouTube did nothing, even though he reported the scam video several times: “You know,” Please take it down. It’s a clear mistake. It’s a clear mistake. It’s fraud. You are YouTube, you are helping people to get out of their money, “he said.
“They won’t,” Steve said.
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Jennifer Marion said, “I think users on YouTube normally need to be vigilant and need to know that YouTube is not fighting back. These scams are refined to add and psychologically to be added very effectively and psychologically, so it is allowed to be put on Youtube, so they do not know every day that it is not safe.”
YouTube is not the only platform used by scammers. They now work on the Internet. “Over $ 10 billion in the AI scam is getting on the Internet,” Danitz said. “$ 5 billion in cyber currency scams on the Internet. We contact those who have been scamful on the Internet every week.”
“Look at Spam, look at Fishing efforts everywhere,” said Wozniaq. “And there is not enough real, I don’t know, to fight muscles.”
As a pioneer of individual computers, Wozniaq’s goal was to give computing power to people. The Internet also did the same.
I said, “When the Internet started to be a public thing really a public thing, it seemed that this information would have to be democraticized.”
“Oh, I loved it!” Wozniaq said. “You can talk to people all over the world. They can publish knowledge that they knew that they knew without going through a third-party book publisher.”
“What happened to that democratization of the Internet?”
“Okay, what happened this, companies discovered how to exploit it,” Wozniaq replied. “Then the social web and Google came. Google had to make money. And the only way to make money is tracking you and selling it to advertisers.”
Wozniaq sold most of his Apple stocks in the mid -1980s when he left the company. Today, however, he still receives a small pacheck from Apple to give speech and represent the company.
He says that he is proud to see Apple becoming a trillion-dollar company. “Apple is still the best,” he said. “And when Apple does the things I do not like, and some closeness I want it to be more open, I will speak about it. Nobody buys my voice!”
I asked, “Apple listen to you when you speak?”
“No,” Vozniaq smiled. “Oh, no. Oh, no.”
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