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I have been frequently and respectfully conversing with a relative who's a full-on Breitbart-parotting die-hard Trump supporter for the past year or so. He was

I have been frequently and respectfully conversing with a relative who's a full-on Breitbart-parotting die-hard Trump supporter for the past year or so. He was throwing around a leaked TGIF video (of Sergey Brin explaining that he finds the election offensive) and saying that this confirms that Google is part a Democratic Party front that's indoctrinating children and teachers against conservative viewpoints. He then went on to spend the next 2 weeks parrotting Breitbart's article after article about how they use foreign workers and that they're building a Chinese government spy system and that the government needs to step in and stop them and on and on. It was fascinating. We discussed the government's role in regulating private companies and it was clear that the philosophy is totally tribal. Break up companies run by liberals, even if there's no demonstrable liberal bias of the service, by any means necessary. Political philosophy be damned. It's quite a time indeed, though I wonder if it's ever really been any different.

fzeroracer 8y ago
I've seen similar chilling arguments be made that Alex Jones of all people is a proper conservative voice and deserves to be heard. All of these attacks on google, facebook etc are not attempts to actually fix the huge monopolies they control but a clear partisan attack because they believe they're being persecuted or censored by these tech companies. These are the same people that claim to be anti-regulation and anti-big government, yet this is one of the more obvious examples of overreach yet.
- nonbel 8y ago
  >"These are the same people that claim to be anti-regulation and anti-big government" Is it? From some other comments in this thread it sounded like "those people" already built alternatives for themselves (voat and gab.ai). Or did you mean "republicans"?
Grue3 8y ago
>they're building a Chinese government spy system and that the government needs to step in and stop them I mean the government should stop them. Aiding and abetting human rights abuses either is, or should be criminal.

fzeroracer 8y ago

I've seen similar chilling arguments be made that Alex Jones of all people is a proper conservative voice and deserves to be heard. All of these attacks on google, facebook etc are not attempts to actually fix the huge monopolies they control but a clear partisan attack because they believe they're being persecuted or censored by these tech companies. These are the same people that claim to be anti-regulation and anti-big government, yet this is one of the more obvious examples of overreach yet.

nonbel 8y ago
>"These are the same people that claim to be anti-regulation and anti-big government" Is it? From some other comments in this thread it sounded like "those people" already built alternatives for themselves (voat and gab.ai). Or did you mean "republicans"?

Grue3 8y ago

>they're building a Chinese government spy system and that the government needs to step in and stop them I mean the government should stop them. Aiding and abetting human rights abuses either is, or should be criminal.