Posted on 04/06/2018 10:12:54 AM PDT by snarkpup
[Link skips 17 minutes of dead air and filler.]
A few interesting points:
The most vulnerable group of voters who are most easily swayed by Google's manipulation of search results are ... (drum roll) ... Moderate Republicans.
There is considerable collusion between the federal government and big tech. The feds are, in effect, outsourcing surveillance to the private sector to get around the Fourth Amendment: "These companies are acting as proxy investigators; but there are no limits on them."
Look up the definition of "Breitbart" on Google, and you get a Wikipedia hit piece.
They're more powerful than the government could ever hope to be. But Libertarians say: "As long as government isn't doing it, it's OK."
These are natural monopolies, and therefore extremely difficult to replace. [I.e., "free market" forces are not solving this problem.]
You ain't seen nothin' yet. They held back (on manipulation) in the last election because they were sure Trump would lose. They will not hold back again.
Recommendation #1: Get off gmail.
Recommendation #2: And get off Chrome (worse than gmail). Likewise: Android and Google home devices.
More transparency needed, with monitoring. "We need to fight the technologists with technology."
"You do not understand what we are up against!"
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This is showing a major flaw in libertarian ideology.
This won’t be fixed without constitutional amendments.
Tech bookmark.
Big Tech is NOT hard to replace. Myspace, anyone?
We’re seeing real collusion to limit access to the internet. Google colluded with Twitter to shut out Gab.ai, its rival. Google also downranks all content it doesn’t like while promoting its own content - Google books, Youtube - in search results.
We can break up Big Tech by requiring them to break up and not collude to limit competition.
Or regulate them as utilities, if they’re going to have to be that big. If Christians have to serve the LBGT whatever, Facebook and Google have to serve conservatives - WITHOUT BIAS.
Additional steps:
* Support groups like Dennis Prager’s PragerU in their lawsuits to fight censorship.
* Donate to sites like Freerepublic and WorldNetDaily that provide alternatives to “Big Tech”.
* Donate to people who have been demonetized on sites like Youtube to keep them going.
Watch the video.
Do you know how long it would take and how much it would cost to make another search engine like google? The only other big search engine is Bing at 1/3 the size. Someone got more money than Bill Gates? Every other search, like yahoo, duckduckgo and more, use google results. Duckduckgo is google results, minus the tracking and data collection. Yahoo, well we know how good they are with data.
Watch the video.
The way they’re classified as an entity, they can’t be regulated like a utinilty and law suits don’t seem to do much good either. It’s been done.
Meanwhile the big three, facebook/twitter/google(which includes youtube) have been demonetizing and blocking conservatives in a major way for a few months now.
They’ve been doing it for a long time but have ramped it up. Some conservatives that were making a living off of youtube and the web, while spreading truth, have lost 70-90% of their income. Breitbart news posted on facebook will now come with a nasty popup warning.
Watch the video.
It’s a little long but not boring.
It’s Anne Coulter, a guy from Breitbart, Peter Sweizcher (I’m sure I spelled that wrong - he wrote the book about clinton foundation/haiti/uranuim etc) and a liberal, but not lesftist, academic/professor.
It’s not just a search engine or website when it comes to google.
They have search wrapped up. They have one of the most popular browsers. They have two operating systems, ChromeOS for tablets(which is all you see at walmart) AND android which is most smart phones.
They’re tracking everything. There’s a lot more too.
Watch the video.
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