Posted on 09/02/2017 2:10:55 AM PDT by Jacquerie
What’s happened is in the past 30 years, education has been completely overtaken by far left radicals and what we are seeing today is the product of that, everything has come to a head and it is causing great damage to the country. Almost all these companies today, Youtube, Facebook, Google, are all run by millennials, people born between 1980 and now.
It’s pretty fascinating to look into. What happened is in the mid 1970s all the WW2/Korean war era teachers and Professors started retiring and were replaced by the hippies of the 1960s. They started indoctrinating students on leftist ideals, I was there, I remember it. One day we would have a teacher in a suit and tie then next day it would be a new teacher in a tie-dye tee shirt and sandals bashing Republicans and Nixon. I graduated from College in 1981 and around the middle of the 1980s all the old teachers and Professors were gone replaced entirely by radicals, the William Ayers, Bernardine Dohrns and they would radicalize the students who in turn became teachers and professors with each new generation more radical than the last.
Well now it’s reached a head. We have all these millennials romping around, completely and utterly out of their minds in leftism. Besides education, they also run our media and internet companies and someone needs to take them aside and pretty much beat some sense into them or cut the snake off at the head, cut funding to education until it is revamped from head to toe to ensure the kids are given a rounded view of the world instead of being forced to look through it with a limited leftist lens otherwise it’s just going to get worse. All the people like myself who escaped the indoctrination in the early 1980s, when we are gone all that’s going to be left are these younger people completely dedicated to leftist insanity and this country no doubt will end up being run as a totalitarian dictatorship.
Good for him. What about when he does?
I notice you didn’t offer a better alternative, you’re just standing around throwing rocks.
Pointing out somebody's liberal leanings is "throwing rocks"?
If you want to enrich another liberal then do so, but please don't tell me that I have to as well.
And as far as an alternative goes...when a conservative creates a search engine I'll use their site. Until then I'll use what I must.
Yes.
Google has been pushing to get “Net Neutrality” imposed on the telecoms and cable companies, to as it claims “protect competition” on the Internet.
Net Neutrality enforced as Google and other want, will turn Internet service providers into de facto heavily regulated public utilities.
Yet Google by itself gets about 66% of all Internet web search requests, and Google and Facebook get about 72% of all Internet ad revenue and in the latest quarters have been getting something like 90% of the growth in ad revenue.
So, where is there more competition, and where is there less competition, on the Internet today? Obviously there is MORE competition in delivering Internet service, and far less competition as far as who is earning revenue from Internet ad content.
So, who is more the kind of near de facto monopoly that should be regulated like a public utility? In my book its Google, not the telecoms and the cable companies. And would the government “public utility” regulators let Google get away with the kind of censorship decisions that Google is doing? No.
America has a precedent to look at in regards to the dangers of allowing monopolies in this country. Look no further back in history than the Rockefeller monopoly of Standard Oil. The government acted because it was a dangerous situation and we are in more danger today from the world of social media. They are more powerful than our real government and that cannot stand. See this article.
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