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Google is far too powerful. And I might not care, if the organization wasn’t so loaded with anti-American Leftists. But when you consider all that Google controls, you understand how bad this company is for America.
Google is allowed to profit enormously, because the company does the government’s bidding. They play the game. If it weren’t for Google’s Leftist stance, the company might have been broken up years ago.
Still Google behaves so egregiously, the U.S. Justice Department is now forced to consider a break-up.
Google parent Alphabet violates anti-trust laws, and more so than from a pure business perspective. Americans can’t trust Google. Worse, you can’t even sue them, though I’d love to see that change.
I read this story about Google’s biased.
GOOGLE NEWS BIAS REVEALED: 63% OF CONTENT FROM LEFT-LEANING SOURCES
63% of articles on Google News are reportedly sourced from left-leaning outlets, while right-leaning sources comprise a meager 6%, according to an in-depth analysis by AllSides media.
CNN and The New York Times alone contribute 28% of all content, overshadowing conservative voices like Fox News, which barely accounts for 5%.
As if Fox News constitutes “conservative” news. Still, the bias is ridiculous.
Recently, Google searches refused to recognize the assassination attempt against President Trump. Fox Business reported:
Google admitted that autocomplete search results regarding the assassination attempt against former President Trump last month were prohibited by design and part of the company’s policy for “hypothetical political violence against current figures.”
Google is so big and profitable, they openly commit election interference; tactics that would land other companies in hot water or their executives in jail. But not Google execs.
Google is the de facto search engine. And they hold such a monopoly, that if you use the internet, you work for them, whether you know it or not.
PJ Media documented a person who tried to use the internet disconnected from Google. They wrote:
It’s been five years since I first shared the story of Gizmodo’s Kashmir Hill, who went to almost superhuman lengths to divorce herself completely from Google. Hill didn’t just stop using Google Search, YouTube, Gmail, Waze, etc.; she got “the help of a Motorola engineer who designed a custom VPN (virtual private network) that restricted all of her devices — laptops, phones, smart speakers, everything — from talking to Google servers.”
That last part is vital because Google’s tracking abilities are baked into so many services without consumers ever being aware of it.
With that custom VPN keeping Google completely off Hill’s back, all was well, right?
RIGHT?
Wrong. Denying Google’s ability to track her and profit from her pretty much broke Hill’s ability to use the internet.
Here’s what happens when your smartphone, laptop, and tablet are denied access to Google’s 8,699,648 (!!!) IP addresses:
1. When trying to get across town for a meeting, Hill discovered that her Uber and Lyft apps were essentially useless. That’s because they rely on Google Maps.
2. Hill was unable to stream her favorite on songs on Spotify. Yep. Spotify hosts all its music on the Google Cloud.
3. Attempting to simply browse the web created flashbacks of the internet in the ’90s. “On Airbnb, photos won’t load,” Hill says. “New York Times articles won’t appear until the site has tried (and failed) to load Google Analytics, Google Pay, Google News, Google ads, and a Doubleclick tracker.” Many of the sites she visited were also dependent on Google Fonts. . .
4. When trying to share video journals to her colleagues at Gizmodo, Dropbox refused to let her log in because the service uses an invisible CAPTCHA — hosted by Google — to verify that real humans are trying to access it.
(Those CAPTCHA puzzles don’t verify whether users are human. They’re a surreptitious way to train artificial intelligence to recognize objects in photographs without paying the trainers. That’d be you and me, bub.)
So your choice as a consumer is to either serve as a profit center for Google or not be able to use the internet.
How does it feel to work for free?
How many times have you taken the easy route and “Log in with Gmail”? As I said earlier, almost every move you make on the internet gets Google paid. And who could resist.
I repeat, I love how Google integrated much of what I enjoy, e.g. single sign-on. I hate remembering so many passwords. And there are other integrated feature functions that I enjoy as well. But Google’s predatory business model that rewards only itself bothers me.
Daily everybody in America and much of the world contributes fractional pennies to Google. If one billion people make Google ten cents a day, they earn $100,000,000 per day. And that’s pretty close to their last earnings report:
Google made nearly $85 billion over the past few months as revenue from its Search and cloud computing businesses soared. That’s according to the quarter two earnings report released by Google’s parent company, Alphabet, on Tuesday, which says Search alone raked in $48.5 billion.
85 billion dollars profit in 90 days. And from a company that makes no actual physical product.
The monopoly of Google reminds many of the breakup of AT&T in 1974. The dismantling of AT&T took a decade, but it did happen.
Google needs to be broken up now. And I’d love to see a class-action lawsuit to get the money they owe me.
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