How Google Falls

American Thinker.com ^ | December 7, 2020 | Jay Valentine

[Kaslin]

"There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen." —Vladimir Lenin

This has been such a week or several weeks. Everything seems to be happening. Most of it not so good. And it ain't over.

At such times, it is easy to become despondent. Americans are watching cherished institutions crumble in the face of leftist ideology: the FBI, the courts, election officials, the Justice Department, ballots in trucks, ballots in suitcases. No need to review that here.

Well, there is something else going on, and maybe it's time to dig into it a bit.

Stand back from the political maelstrom, take a deep breath, and let's talk technology. No, let's go deeper and talk software.

Marc Andreesen, a leading venture guy, wrote an important piece years ago: "Why Software Is Eating the World."

His thesis is that software runs about everything, so software, the computer instruction set, will run the world. OK, let's leave it there.

America just lived through the first wave of what might be called a one-sided software war. Software, as in Google, Facebook, Twitter, and other "Big Techs," worked together to impact an election cycle. Nobody disputes that, not even the techs. Actually, they are pretty proud of it.

Americans, particularly the ones daily censored on Twitter and Facebook, look at these monoliths and see eternal weaponry arrayed against them. Their senators and reps will never break them up. Most take money from Google, and the rest live in fear of crossing them.

One man's monolith is another man's dinosaur. Don't fear these guys; they just got there first.

Looking at the technology behind all these firms, one finds they are using conventional software stacks, the kind pretty much everyone uses today.

[Kaslin]

I despise google (spelled in lower case on purpose) and refuse to use it

[TexasGunLover]

I despise google (spelled in lower case on purpose) and refuse to use it

You used it posting this message. Besides, Google planned their "split-up" strategy years ago. They'll persist and thrive.

[sauropod]

Wipe them out or they will wipe you out.

[TexasGunLover]

Wipe them out or they will wipe you out.

Why are you using them, just as you did in your reply to me?

[mosaicwolf]

This article didn’t tell me anything specific. But, I am not a technical guy.

[Lakeshark]

I've been using Duck Duck Go for years now.

I recommend them to everyone I know.

[sauropod]

That does not invalidate my comment.

BTW, just *how* is posting a comment on FR “using Goolag?

[subterfuge]

Duck Go for me too. But where I work I’m forced to use all manner of google crap.

[TexasGunLover]

I've been using Duck Duck Go for years now.

Using Yahoo!-Bing (which are what DDG uses) is not much different than Google, besides all the data is shared anyway.

[TexasGunLover]

BTW, just *how* is posting a comment on FR “using Goolag?

Right click and "View Source" on any page on FR.

[Lakeshark]

There is a major limit to the sharing with DDG. They do not track, nor store.

If you have a better suggestion, I'd be interested in hearing it.

[Kaslin]

That is what I am using too, and I recommend to everyone I meet.

[Kaslin]

Got any problem with it? So sue me.

[usconservative]

Right click and "View Source" on any page on FR.

I'll save y'all the trouble. Skip right to the bottom of the source.

[TexasGunLover]

If you have a better suggestion, I'd be interested in hearing it.

There is no better suggestion, because ultimately you're trying to accomplish something that can't be accomplished. It's the same reason those of us in big business know that cash users are still easy to track. Timestamp correlations between security cameras, traffic cameras, POS's, toll tags, and cell phones accomplish more than people imagine.

I've been involved in multiple cases where data sources from major retailers, local and state governments were put together in less than an hour to identify folks, where they were and what they were doing.

And folks, this isn't new, if you've had anything more than a cable box since the 1990's you're being tracked.

You can put a lot of effort into privacy, but in the end, you have none and haven't in decades.

[TexasGunLover]

Got any problem with it? So sue me.

I have no problem with it, but don't delude yourself into thinking you're keeping out of their, or anyone else's sight. You're not.

[Kaslin]

I use Bing when I look for graphics.

[Bigg Red]

::Right click and “View Source” on any page on FR.::

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Please be patient with an old lady here, who is trying to understand. I followed your instructions, and I am seeing a bunch of code. How does that lead to Google?

[Lakeshark]

I have a game I play, a cross word puzzle before going to sleep. I play it on a different tablet that doesn't track my email, or anything else serious I do.

When I do the puzzle, I switch to google to get hints about weather, and searching celebrity crap I know nothing about.

Googe thinks I'm a chattering fanboi as a result.

Misdirection. I love giving them a false impression, and love that you can eff them up. It's great fun.

[nathanbedford]

From a reply I just posted moments ago on another thread (The Bias Fallacy. It’s the achievement gap, not systemic racism, that explains demographic disparities in education and employment.) :

We read post after post on these threads lamenting the absence of action on the part of virtually all our American institutions to put right this brazen election fraud.

Virtually every institution, our media (even Fox), the judiciary, our (even Republican) legislatures, big business, Republican organs of opinion (National Review) Republican senators and even the Republican National Committee have failed to step up. The list is long but it is unnecessary to add to this list, the point has been made it remains only to ask, why?

Heather MacDonald tells us why -at least as it applies to academia and many institutions that rely on academia to provide talent. The blistering personal attacks to come against Heather MacDonald will tell us in broader application why all the institutions in America are behaving the way they are in the face of blatant fraudulent theft of Americans' heritage in this election. Heather MacDonald, keep your head down and take note of what happened to Charles Murray when he published, The Bell Curve.

James Lindsay with collaborators has published a thoroughgoing exposure of the ideology that has infected our nation festering in the petri dish of academia and is now leaching out throughout society. His book, Cynical Theory, walks us through the brainwashing process which now dominates our culture with labels like critical theory, postmodernism, institutional racism, etc.

Nathan Bedford for years has been posting his theory with this maxim: all politics in America is not local but ultimately racial.

It starts with race, as Heather MacDonald will see to her sorrow, and infects every issue which confronts us, as James Lindsay has so thoroughly explored. If we want to understand why our institutions have so blatantly abdicated their responsibilities to our nation, consider what happened to Charles Murray, look at our cancel culture, do not forget that many of us are exhorting our children to expunge all Internet postings which might betray a conservative bent. We are entering an age of fear.

Those who are not brainwashed by postmodernism and its poison are intimidated. There is no upside for doing the right thing, better to grab your piece of the American pie before the deluge. Sell your office while you can before the barbarians break through the gate. Why not? You've already lost your soul to Critical Theory. Get yours or get screwed.

We lose battles for the election in institutions like the courts because we lost the institutions themselves years ago.