03-13-2018, 07:37 AM
If you pay much attention to the debate about whether Google is guilty of censorship, here is an interesting challenge to the notion that Google is a private company:
Tell Me More About How Google Isn’t Part Of The Government And Can Therefore Censor Whoever It Wants?
"This is absurd on its surface, because Google is not separate from the government in any meaningful way. It has been financially intertwined with US intelligence agencies since its very inception when it received research grants from the CIA and NSA for mass surveillance, pours massive amounts of money into federal lobbying and DC think tanks, has a cozy relationship with the NSA and multiple defense contracts....
"There needs to be some sort of measure in place which protects the public from such manipulations. Either remove corporate power from government power or acknowledge that they are fully meshed and expand constitutional protections to the users of any media giant which has enmeshed itself in government power. Pretending corporate power and government power are separate when they are not while exploiting that inseparable symbiosis to silence political dissent is not acceptable."
At what point do we start to recognize interdependence -- the government depends on Google and vice versa -- as agency?
Tell Me More About How Google Isn’t Part Of The Government And Can Therefore Censor Whoever It Wants?
"This is absurd on its surface, because Google is not separate from the government in any meaningful way. It has been financially intertwined with US intelligence agencies since its very inception when it received research grants from the CIA and NSA for mass surveillance, pours massive amounts of money into federal lobbying and DC think tanks, has a cozy relationship with the NSA and multiple defense contracts....
"There needs to be some sort of measure in place which protects the public from such manipulations. Either remove corporate power from government power or acknowledge that they are fully meshed and expand constitutional protections to the users of any media giant which has enmeshed itself in government power. Pretending corporate power and government power are separate when they are not while exploiting that inseparable symbiosis to silence political dissent is not acceptable."
At what point do we start to recognize interdependence -- the government depends on Google and vice versa -- as agency?