Posted on 05/27/2016 6:07:06 AM PDT by OddLane
I distinctly remember taking part in an online discussion several years ago where one of the interlocutors warned me what would happen if Google ever became an evil monopoly. I couldn’t help but think to myself, have you not been paying attention? Leaving aside its extensive invasions of privacy, its intense cooperation with the largest dictatorship on the planet, as well as its agreements with more benighted countries which might or might not censor blasphemous search results, there is the pervasive ideological bias which infects this corporation and periodically makes itself known through heavy-handed editorial and advertising decisions.
However, a corporation which finds itself even more powerful than Google in terms of shaping the public debate is Facebook. Thanks to Gizmodo, we now know that the militant opposition to Donald Trump among Mark Zuckerberg and his minions was simply the tip of the iceberg, and that Facebook employees had purposefully manipulated their site’s Trending Topics feature in order to suppress conservative views. Discrimination against non-bien pensant views-including opposition to open borders, multiculturalism, firearms abolition, and using the Constitution as a leftist version of Mad Libs-is encoded in Facebook’s DNA.
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I notice searches don’t turn up as much on the The One as they used to, particularly on the image search. Google is the divison of propaganda; almost its own directorate, if you will. Someone has their hand in their cookie jar and knows if you control the flow of information you can control everything. We need an alternative to Google that’s not controlled by the leftsts; same with the media.
I agree-and am actually going to write a piece about that subject in a few days.
Facebook actively sold, then required payment (as in money) for that access, to a potential audience. If they did that all while knowing that “audience” as well as “the payee” themselves were being suppressed? Do you see my point here?
How many lawyers do you think are lining up or burning the midnight oil contemplating how they’ll attract others for a class action? Think about it. Is it unreasonable to think you won’t start seeing ads on late-night TV or business channels stating things like “Did you pay money only to see no results on Facebook? You may have a legal right to join our…..” See what mean? And that’s just the beginning in my opinion.
Facebook is literally a monopoly. Google is as well.
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