Is anyone honestly shocked that this actually happens with Google? It does seem kind of strange that they would pick such a high profile as Donald Trump to do

Is anyone honestly shocked that this actually happens with Google? It does seem kind of strange that they would pick such a high profile as Donald Trump to do this with but this is simply an extension of basic marketing adage of "if you don't like what's being said you change the conversation." When there's actual serious conversations about getting rid of public libraries in favor of private companies. When people have willfully given away their culture to effectively infinite copyright. When we have groups of people espousing the idea that the public cannot be trusted with information to make informed decisions on. This is the end result. We get a curated response from the technology overlords that we put in place and then wave our hands private company not beholding to free speech or free information. What's surprising to me more than something like this is that there are people in the open source community that support this kind of closed information and curated disclosure. They have forgotten the core principles that knowledge and information should be free. If you can convince someone to willfully put the shackles on their mind and accept that the idea of thoughts can be owned or thoughts by themselves can be dangerous you have them convinced that person to give up their freedom and that person will thank you for it.