Posted on 06/06/2019 8:11:26 AM PDT by Liberty7732
Crony capitalism "allows for preferential regulation and other favorable government intervention based on personal relationships." (http://www.businessdictionary.com/definition/crony-capitalism.html) Google's being required to modify its product in order to do business in China is the opposite of preferential.
But even if we suppose that Google's knuckling under to China somehow makes their future Chinese earnings not theirs or not private, it doesn't pass the laugh test to conclude as you seem to that their current servers are not their property to allow use of or not as they choose.
If all the main privately owned platforms get together to kick you off at the same time, it's RICO.
“I actually set up a small-scale monitoring system which worked beautifully, and which looked at bias in search rankings that people were seeing before the 2016 election, looking at Google, Bing, and Yahoo, not just Google. I was able to preserve more than 13,000 election-related searches, more than 90,000 web pages to which the search results linked,” he explained.
“I was able to analyze this looking for bias toward either Clinton or Trump in search results. I found a very clear bias toward Mrs. Clinton, enough to shift possibly 2 or 3 million votes
Is there any evidence of collusion, rather than simply shared viewpionts?
The simultaneous timing. It's probable cause and worth having the DOJ investigate.
The Senate could be doing its part, too, by bringing in the CEOs for more hot seat testimony and drafting some anti-trust legislation. Of course we'd need Graham,but he's gone all soft and quisling again.
You twist and you turn, you take partial definitions and you ignore full concepts.
Do a search on "crony capitalism" and "symbiotic relationship between big business and big government". You know what "symbiotic" means, right? I even used the word up thread and you ignored it.
Crony Capitalism isn't about "personal", close emotional relationships. It's "laughable" if you think that it is. It's about symbiotic relationships.
Google creates a tyrannical search engine for China and China reciprocates by giving Google the business (or a "preference" if you insist).
But even if we suppose that Google's knuckling under to China somehow makes their future Chinese earnings not theirs or not private, it doesn't pass the laugh test to conclude as you seem to that their current servers are not their property to allow use of or not as they choose.
I said theoretically. Big Government and Big Business symbiotically using their monopolistic powers to control the free flow of information, gain profit, and accumulate property is the antithesis of free market gained, real private property.
When Big Business gets Big Government to squeeze out competition (existing or future), that weakens its ethical claims to its accumulation, agreed. It's a long, long leap from that to government A dictating the use of said accumulation based on actions regarding government B; that's a Pandora's box not all of whose contents we may like.
Are you really taking the position that social media has no affect on elections?
and that the left having complete domination and censorship of conservatives on social media will not swing elections in their favor?
I suppose you think that the television networks have never had influence on elections either.
Are you really taking the position that social media has no affect on elections?
and that the left having complete domination and censorship of conservatives on social media will not swing elections in their favor?
No. Are you propping up straw men to beat rather than addressing what I've actually posted?
Beck laughed at some of those who were banned before him.
Really? Who?
We are way past that point.
It does not matter.
People will folow the strong horse.
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