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Both sides, Democrat and Republican, are now anti big tech. Love it or Hate it, when you piss off the most powerful governing body on the planet you're in for
by derp_dee_derp 7y ago
Both sides, Democrat and Republican, are now anti big tech.
Love it or Hate it, when you piss off the most powerful governing body on the planet you're in for a bad time.
My question is more timeframe: Google obviously won't be broken up tomorrow, but probably earlier than a decade from now.
I guess the timeframe depends on who wins the next presidential election?
- not_a_cop75 7y agoI'm pretty sure that google can just be friends with one of 300 other governments and survive.
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- maximente 7y agoreads like a great parable to be written afterwards: the algorithms, successful 99.8% of the time, misfired on a US presidential candidate, who went on to lead the eventually successful efforts to break up Google, neutering its algorithms' effects upon the world. the algorithms giveth; the algorithms taketh away
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- tenpies 7y agoThe worst part is I think both sides have at least some merit for their suspicion. Obviously the Republicans seem to be more openly punished and the balance tipped against them, but the Democrats also suffer occasionally, especially if they are not the right Democrat. Google might be treading dangerously close to becoming persona non-grata for 50% of the population, regardless of who wins. There is also a cautionary tale there that perhaps the whole idea of "don't talk politics at work" was not some tool from The Man to keep workers subdued, but rather a hard-earned lesson to keep companies from imploding when employers think they've been hired to be activists. Surprise, turns out not everything has to be political and your personal identity doesn't have to bleed over to your professional life.