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"...but has anyone stopped to consider that Google et al have very obvious political affiliations and can exert their control over the Internet in order to furt
by bilbo0s 9y ago
"...but has anyone stopped to consider that Google et al have very obvious political affiliations and can exert their control over the Internet in order to further their agendas?..."
Have you, yourself, stopped to consider the possibility that large corporations have had very obvious political affiliations, and have been exerting their control to further their agendas since long before Google existed?
- xienze 9y agoHave you considered that Google, Facebook, etc. can control public discourse and what information people can see in ways never before thought possible?
- bilbo0s 9y agoHave you considered that advisers for Nixon's first Presidential campaign made the same complaint about network television? My only point here is that many, many companies have been exerting their control for many, many years to further the varied agendas of their principal shareholders. This really is nothing new.
- reaperducer 9y agoNot new. But better. More effective. Which is worse.
- stefs 9y agomore effective than the kronen-zeitung? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kronen_Zeitung https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kronen_Zeitung
- laretluval 9y ago> have been exerting their control to further their agendas since long before Google existed? It's an old idea that corporations control discourse to further their political agendas, but previously those agendas were hard to discern. The new information that has become clear in the last few months, at least to me, is that their political agendas tend to be that of the Democratic party.
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