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No, I'm just well aware of the extent to which fundamental control of the flow of information can lead to tyranny. If you think that the impact of invisibly distorted search results from a company with 88% market share is the same as the effect of visible bias in newspapers that had local market shares of under 50% you are engaging in a fantasy.

Read a little more about what Google has been up to for some time.

Are you really OK with a search engine that generates results intended to create a point of view?

I appreciate you endeavoring to educate me on Google's long and deeply-embedded tentacles. In fact I must thank you for the article - Jigsaw is a very clever PR subsidiary of Alphabet; it's almost like the DNC setting up an anti-radicalization division.

But while I didn't know about Jigsaw, I stand with most Americans in my knowledge that Google can't be trusted. I'm aware. Indeed, as I showed, so are most Americans. In fact this NBC news story (not exactly an innocent bystander in all this) suggests Google helped reinforce racism. The information that search engines aren't reliable is out there.

Yes, the fundamental control of the flow of information can lead to tyranny. But how is that possible when most of the potential consumers of that information know it's fake? Furthermore, how is tyranny possible when most of the citizens not only know the searches are biased and content faked, but that they know where to go to get unbiased and unfaked content? In addition, how can tyranny be on the move when a phrase like #FakeNews is not only uttered by the Head of the Executive Branch, but is part of the lexicon of citizens old and young? Finally, how is tyranny possible when a good chunk of that informed public holds ordnance that dwarfs the military of other nations?

CAN things get worse? Of course. WILL they get worse absent government intervention? Maybe...but the probability approaches 100% if we ask the government to intervene. Thank you FRiend, but I'll place my trust in the informed citizenry like the Founders did, and not be a liberal and run to the government out of a Fear of the Dark.

Thank you for a civilized discussion.