Posted on 10/04/2023 4:25:15 AM PDT by george76
the federal government’s antitrust suit against Google, the first big monopoly trial in a quarter-century.
Google has spent the last couple of decades hoovering up everyone’s private information for its own use, but it wants to make sure the public knows as little as possible about what it’s doing to the public.
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So what’s Google hiding?
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a Google vice president bragging about how “addictive” the search giant’s services are, comparing them to tobacco and illicit drugs.
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What else is being hidden? We don’t know because, well, it’s being hidden.
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One of secrecy’s more destructive aspects is it invites speculation about what’s being kept secret.
One possibility is that a more open approach would reveal just how closely Big Tech firms like Google have been working with the federal government to shape public opinion and even influence elections.
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James Meigs notes in City Journal this is no conspiracy theory: Newly released documents show White House and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention officials working hand in hand with tech companies and social-media platforms to censor views and reports about COVID and its origins that turn out to have been true.
Google’s video platform, YouTube, even removed a “roundtable discussion .. discussed COVID policy with a group of scientists,” including Stanford’s Jay Bhattacharya.
The sin: Some experts doubted the benefits of masks for small children.
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this paper’s reporting on Hunter Biden’s laptop just before the 2020 election was censored across many platforms.
Twitter (now X) didn’t even allow users to share links to it via direct message.
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Over the past few years, huge tech companies like Google have assumed enormous economic and political power, often working hand-in-glove with unelected bureaucrats to suppress political opposition.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
Proprietary intellectual property?
“influence elections”, there is the tip we are looking for. Except i would call it “election fraud” which is a legal term, that if found guilty of, could translate int treason.
Bump
——hoovering up -—
Brit speak pollution
The author is attempting to appear educated while speaking in a foreign language
Google is an enemy of the people and the Republic.
What say Elon??
The media aren’t showing much interest in the trial. Is it being censored?
The secret is that Google used its power to aid dodgy government purposes and directives — but the government turned on Google for using that power for its own purposes and interests as well.
Is C-Span recording it?
Nahhh!
I haven’t use Google search in years. I use a Brave browser that has search. It does just fine. It also blocks ads and trackers quite well without degradation to a sites performance. On the rare occasion I need maps I use Bing.
This is just a dog & pony show. The U.S. government and thousands of it’s tentacles are participating in a wholesale effort to gather as much information on it’s citizens as possible. For nefarious reasons.
Who are they fooling?
But its an antitrust trial regarding googles dominance in the search engine world.... not an election interference investigation.
Big Tech firms like Google have been working with the federal government to shape public opinion and even influence elections.
Ding ding ding fear of the public finding out what information the have and sold and to whom.
Yeah, wink wink.
bttt
When is Zuck going to jail? Thats what I want to know. He literally bought an election. It easy to change the browser on my iphone- how can I overcome paid actors?
“Over the past few years, huge tech companies like Google have assumed enormous economic and political power, often working hand-in-glove with unelected bureaucrats to suppress political opposition.”
Classic fascism as designed by Mussolini and Hitler. Hitler stated in speeches that he had no problem with private property, as long as the owners carried out and supported the dictates of the state.
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