Well this could be an endless discussion, but in my opinion all legislations that moves society towards socialism is fundamentally evil. Maybe the real issue is that people have some unrealistic expectations of Google to be some god-like neutral benign entity only working for the common good? No such things exists - and no, governments are not it, either. And just because they support some organization that wrote something they like, doesn't mean they paid for that particular thing to be written.Įven so, can we not expect some basic internet knowledge from Google users? Why would they automatically trust anything somebody links to support their cause? Of course if you follow a link from Google that says "this supports our cause", you take into account that the source is probably biased. I also don't see any references to "a study" in the article. I am just tired of such articles breathlessly proclaiming big corp conspiracies for normal, sane behavior. What else are they supposed to do? Donate money to their enemies (which incidentally, they actually do, I expect, but that is besides the point). That google supports organizations that work towards their own goal again is hardly "nefarious", but completely normal and sane behavior.
It says Google references three organizations, one of which has been accused of an Astroturfing campaign by some other organisation, which apparently we are automatically supposed to trust (because we trust everybody who opposes big coporations, I guess?). The article doesn't actually claim they are publishing astroturfed propaganda. Government regulations, on the other hand, are REAL tyranny as there is no way to opt out. The people could stop using Google at any moment, taking away its power. Likewise, if your employer exerts "power" over you, look for another job. It is only the people giving it its power. If you don't like Google, again, don't use them. In general the "people with power" theory, which commies want to use to gain power over other people. The "monopolies" argument is just commie propaganda in my opinion. I don't think they pretend to be "uninterested referees" in a call to action against certain legislation? Who would ever think that? Clearly they are "interested" in shooting down that legislation.Īs I said elsewhere, there is plenty to dislike about Google and their power. It sounds to me as if they clearly lay out the disadvantages (in their view) to their users. "Google pretends to still be an uninterested referee on a fair playing field." Maybe we can leave the Dr Joe Rogan MD conspiracies in the moon landing hoax bin in favor of simpler hypotheses. Sometimes, the government agencies are just conducting a kind of VC investing in academia and hoping something useful pops out. Just like ARPA's work on the internet was motivated by nuclear war, but the outcome was not at all what the original envisioned use is. It could also be that the CIA just in general, funds lots of stuff, just like DARPA, just like the DOE, they hand out tons of grants because they are flooded with proposals, and they don't always have a master plan on what they think the outcome or use will be. It's like saying, if the CIA funded a college department that invented USENET/UUCP, they then therefore had planned all along to create great online chat communities just so that they could easily mine it, a kind of uber honey-pot hypothesis. Completely open source, public, search engines would have existed. The CIA didn't invent search engines or the idea of crawling and indexing, and these conspiracy theories are rather pointless.
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