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To: Prospero
Google is dangerously close to becoming what Americans a century ago called a "trust," and what statutes refer to as an illegal monopoly.
It wouldn’t be the first. The Associated Press and its membership is (not are) “a conspiracy against the public” (Adam Smith). IMHO “bias in the media” is rooted in that fact (even tho “bias” in nonfiction is a separate - and possibly entirely intractable - issue).

Given that the core function of the AP - the economical distribution of news over expensive telegraph lines - has been mooted by the technological advances which make the Internet practical, the AP is no longer “too big to fail,” it is too big - period.


122 posted on 08/30/2014 12:10:57 AM PDT by conservatism_IS_compassion ("Liberalism” is a conspiracy against the public by wire-service journalism.)
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To: conservatism_IS_compassion
Meh... Google is evil. Ignore their mission statement.

You avoid them like you avoid an oncoming bus.

/johnny

124 posted on 08/30/2014 12:13:39 AM PDT by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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