This was an interesting article I read which related to the advertiser controversy of companies pulling out their advertising funds from Google. It mentioned how a person named Eric Feinberg had been working non-stop to try and intentionally find content that relates to say hate group related content and taking screenshots whenever he finds an ad served with it. Basically he had been publishing these findings continuously where we eventually see how it turned out for Google.
Now the interested thing here is that he apparently owns a company called Global Intellectual Property Enforcement Center that has some kind of specialized computer algorithm to correlate various keywords and data to find controversial and dangerous content I guess you can say. He apparently owns the patent for this too and wants to license it to companies like Google. Even more interesting is after all this correlation with the media and such he seems very confident that if Google even tries to do it on its own that they will violate his patent in some way.
In many ways it’s almost like this is the person that created the controversy because he feels he has the solution to fix it which he wants to make money off of. Very interesting from a business perspective I thought. Everything usually just comes down to money though huh? In some ways I guess it’s like the old saying where people say “It’s just business.”