Winer actually seems to be suggesting that because the tech industry is So Very Important its titans should be immune to any kind of critical scrutiny.
Some people are suggesting that.
We have been suggesting to the Americans that U.S. high-tech companies are our natural partner.
Indeed, quoting a former US Surgeon General, he suggests that tech is making us so lonely that, in negative health terms, it's the equivalent of smoking fifteen cigarettes a day.
It said that it intended to ship the product by the end of the year, although one tech journalist has suggested that may be an over-ambitious target.
He also suggests that tech businesses are among the worst culprits.
Anyone in tech peddling claims that "the labels" are a homogenous group of digital dinosaurs is as blinkered as anyone in music suggesting that "tech people" just want to enrich themselves and their investors at the expense of musicians.
And history suggests that "tech companies that are dominant have trouble from within, not from competitors".
The danger, they suggested, was that tech-savvy marketers or hackers could use the super-cookies for their own purposes regardless of consumer's privacy preferences.
Experience suggests that is misleading.
