They have outsourced social responsibility to journalists, watchdogs and other citizens, who have increasingly taken on the role of unpaid moderators – flagging abusive, dangerous and illegal material, which the sites then remove in the face of bad publicity.
"But I'm also interested in playing him as a prince who thinks he has the whole world but who then falls in love and has to make a decision, because until now he's outsourced his responsibility for making adult choices to another human being".
But, when manufacturing is outsourced, this responsibility can become less clear.
The Filipino state has basically outsourced such responsibilities to profit-driven enterprises.
Consequently, the management and development of innovations in outsourced activities become the responsibility of an agent external to the firm.
It may not be possible for government to disown the responsibility of outsourced staff delivering cutting edge services by distancing itself from the management contractor who hires the staff.
Publishers and other corporate media types want to profit from "outsourced" production and avoid financial responsibility for the many benefits like health care, vacations and retirement that the corporation's regularly employed workers have won.
It hardly helped that a headline story of late has been the collapse of Southern Cross, a private chain of care homes for the elderly, which has raised the question of what the government's responsibility is when outsourced services go wrong.
Just because the cloud service you're using (SaaS, storage, an API, video feed, ad server, etc). is easy to deploy and fully outsourced, it does not equate to abdicating responsibility for its performance, nor your responsibility to monitor, measure, verify and hold those services accountable.
Only control by politicians can provide accountability .The responsibility for all the outsourced services was shifted to a newly-created cottage industry of supervisors.
Having outsourced most of the traditional parental responsibilities -- growing food, sewing clothes, building shelter, or teaching the basics of a trade -- modern mothers and fathers are left to figure out on their own what their purpose is.
