Posted on 04/25/2018 6:40:11 AM PDT by Petrosius
But they will give that data to the Obama and Clinton campaigns.
Google has made itself mighty convenient. Whether it is necessary, is another story.
If you are an online business and virtually all of retail contact with customers is online, Google is pretty essential. Certainly the search component - and they use algorithms on that to suppress certain results. They can wipe out some small to medium businesses with a few keystrokes.
How about noticing that this is not the problem alleged.
Correct, but it is quite similar (but even more expansive) and is being alleged by many others. I offered it up merely to show a way Google can use its monopoly power to destroy an even greater number of businesses if they should run afoul of its PC apparatchiks. Heck, most people use Google in place of the phone book we all used to have right next our phones. It think Google is in a very analogous situation to that of ATT&T when it was broken up. Although in this situation it may be better to declare it a public utility.
So if non-business people don’t use Google — I find what I want without Google and I don’t have to worry that I’m being pigeon-holed. DuckDuckGo works for me.
Yet but you are a discriminating, more savvy web user than most. The mass, over 60%, of your customer base is using Google. That’s enough to make or break many.
Missouri Synod ping!
Here’s the problem -— if we demand that lawmakers do something about it, they will end up passing some legislation that will backfire, and cause us to lose even more rights. It’s what the democrats are angling for, right now, in these congressional hearings. But I don’t know what the answer is, because it’s not as if we can drive Google out of business. I know how bad it will eventually be -— I’ve read the back of the Book; I just hate to see it unfold before my eyes. Pray without ceasing -— with the election of Donald Trump, we’ve been given a bit of a reprieve, but how long it will last, only God knows.
That isn’t exactly true......
Granted it’s yet to be decided in courts whether the half dozen firms that control social media can purge non liberal content pell mell given they are more or less de facto monopolies
Facebook and Instagram
Google and YouTube
Snapchat
That’s the ones we’re up against
Between them they own much of social media platform and sites
My Pastor used to be at the Synod headquarters.
He has been preaching pretty regularly that we need to get ready for active persecution. California is getting ready to ban traditional theology on marriage, and that includes the Bible.
Google is going after the “little” publishing houses. I suspect they are holding off from angering the Catholics, or they have reached another accommodation
That does not mean a conservative cannot start their own version of those platforms. It’s a huge business opportunity................
Yes but try to imagine we do that and we purged progressives the same way
It wouldn’t stand
It’s not settled law by any means the ability to determine internet opinion content
If a bar in NYC can legally eject patrons who support Trump, then an Internet forum can do the same to anybody they politically disagree with.
Jim Robinson does it all the time.................
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