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Google hasn’t committed the same evils Facebook has. They’ve been smarter about handling personal data in the west, and their platforms haven’t been used to att
by jaabe 7y ago
Google hasn’t committed the same evils Facebook has. They’ve been smarter about handling personal data in the west, and their platforms haven’t been used to attack democracy.
In Asia their platforms haven’t been used to help countries commit genocide.
I mean, you could make the case for breaking up google for monopoly reasons, but google has mostly just done business the way amazon or Microsoft has. And unlike Facebook, google has been branching out of the advertising business for a while with their cloud services, hardware and paid software.
If I want a privacy secure add-free gmail, I can actually get that by throwing money after google.
- josh2600 7y agoIs that really true about Asia considering that google was secretly working on a conformist search engine for Asia? Again, I think this is complicated.
- jaabe 7y agoI think google is guilty of a lot of things in Asia, but it’s not like windows in China is like windows in Denmark either. I haven’t heard about google products being used to organise genocides though, but Facebook has.