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But Google is not a political opponent of trump and if biden were to go after facebook one could make the same accusation. This is a ridiculous standard. Those
by tathougies 6y ago
But Google is not a political opponent of trump and if biden were to go after facebook one could make the same accusation. This is a ridiculous standard. Those with opposing political views (and it's not clear Google really has political views) are not exempt from the law.
- geofft 6y agoI don't think Google sees itself as an opponent of Trump, but Trump certainly acts as if Google is an opponent (cf. https://twitter.com/search?q=from:realdonaldtrump+google https://twitter.com/search?q=from:realdonaldtrump+google), and that's what matters here. I don't think it particularly matters whether Google really is an opponent of Trump, either. (My personal opinion is that Google is much less of an opponent than Trump claims, but also, since politics is not a dirty word and the existence of a giant multinational corporation is inherently political even if it weren't for all the things that make Google Google, it would be entirely reasonable for Google to choose to be more of an opponent than they are - and it still would not make me feel like selective enforcement of the laws is justifiable.)