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Will the Supreme Court Make Google Too Big to Fail?
American Thinker.com ^ | December 17, 2019 | Joe Messina

Posted on 12/17/2019 9:44:45 AM PST by Kaslin

It’s practically a foregone conclusion that everyone uses Google in one way or another. Now the company’s reach has expanded even further, acquiring Fitbit in December for a whopping $2.1 billion. Google products are in our homes, its software is on our phones, and its search engine answers over three billion queries per day. Even the word “google” itself has become a fixture in the American lexicon. The tech giant has become so ubiquitous, its influence so massive, that it’s safe to say Google’s effect on public discourse is unparalleled in modern society.

Once a mere search engine, the tech company now operates within the fields of computing, mobile phones, artificial intelligence, and a whole host of other industries. Google’s pull over the levers of the U.S. economy is substantial and growing by the day. But this is a dangerous trend that America has witnessed before. We know where this leads, and unfortunately, it’s nowhere good. Google, it seems, is becoming too big to fail.

To their credit, certain conservatives have seen the risks that Google poses for some time now. For years, Tucker Carlson has railed against Google and other big tech companies, arguing that they present perhaps the greatest threat toward American liberty. As Carlson contends, companies like Google function as practical monopolies, continually expanding outward, growing in power until their influence is too significant to ignore. As it turns out, that is precisely what Google is attempting to accomplish -- and it is using the American legal system to help ensure its success.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: duckduckgodotcom; fitbit; google; monopoly; scotus; tucker
I absolutely despise google (spelled in lower case on purpose) and refuse to use it.

Instead I use and recommend DuckDuckgo.com to everyone

1 posted on 12/17/2019 9:44:45 AM PST by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

If you use DuckDuckGo you are using Google whether you realize it or not.

Google has their hands into nearly everything in technology these days.


2 posted on 12/17/2019 9:55:48 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog (Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer)
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To: Kaslin

The literal incarnation of the Ministry of Truth.


3 posted on 12/17/2019 9:56:04 AM PST by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: Kaslin

Using Google used to be so much better before they started trying to read my brain. The search results were much more eclectic. Now I only get a few results and they are all basically the same because they think that is what I want. It makes it very hard to do Internet research. They know where I want to go on vacation next though. So there is that.


4 posted on 12/17/2019 10:01:23 AM PST by refreshed (But we preach Christ crucified... 1 Corinthians 1:23)
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To: Buckeye McFrog
If you use DuckDuckGo you are using Google whether you realize it or not.

Yep. And based on my tests, using the data not as well as Google.

5 posted on 12/17/2019 10:01:37 AM PST by CatOwner
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To: Kaslin

“Too Big Too Fail”, means essentially it becomes a government entity.


6 posted on 12/17/2019 10:02:21 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Kaslin

I’ve always believed that google is the NSA


7 posted on 12/17/2019 10:10:57 AM PST by MrBambaLaMamba (Stay vigilant - When Socialists lose elections violence usually follows)
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To: dfwgator

What about Amazon who is building a billion dollar airfreight hub?


8 posted on 12/17/2019 10:11:42 AM PST by cymbeline
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To: Kaslin

let’s say the Supremes rule against google, or Capital Hill starts mandating things google doesn’t like at some point.

Google could pretty much shut everything down couldn’t they?

It may be too late.


9 posted on 12/17/2019 10:32:26 AM PST by tsomer (Trump: the meanest SOB that ever loved our country!)
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