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Rest assured agencies in the U.S. can (and do) do all of that and more to U.S. Google today with a simple warrant or takedown notice.

mrkramer 2y ago
US is liberal democracy, China is not and how much information is censored on Google.com if any? And did US government use Google to target individuals or ethnic groups within US?
- wildrhythms 2y ago
  >how much information is censored on Google.com if any? Is this a serious question? Google removes all sorts of content from its index. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_by_Google#:~:text=Google%20and%20its%20subsidiary%20companies,asked%20Google%20to%20censor%20content https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_by_Google#:~:text=G....
  - mrkramer 2y ago
    Majority of those removals are safety removals not ideological censorship based on some socialist or whatever ideology.
    - jmbwell 2y ago
      No its “intellectual property” “protection” based on some capitalist or whatever ideology Same thing, different beneficiaries in power
      - mrkramer 2y ago
        Ok so US doesn't want "socialist" influence in US and China doesn't want "capitalistic" influence in China. Eye for an eye. Problem solved.
op00to 2y ago
> with a simple warrant See the difference?
- wildrhythms 2y ago
  You are putting a lot of faith in the police and judges that issue those things.
  - rvnx 2y ago
    and there is no transparency needed, warrants don't have to be public in most countries.
  - thoroughburro 2y ago
    Just a little bit more than my faith in “no oversight whatsoever”, yes.
    - wildrhythms 2y ago
      [flagged]
- ceejayoz 2y ago
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSA_warrantless_surveillance_(2001%E2%80%932007)?wprov=sfti1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSA_warrantless_surveillance_(... Not really?
  - Forbo 2y ago
    See also: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_construction https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_construction Americans have way more faith in America being the good guys than is warranted.
Geezus_42 2y ago
And Google gave the NSA direct connections into their data centers in order to spy on US citizens in secret.

mrkramer 2y ago

US is liberal democracy, China is not and how much information is censored on Google.com if any? And did US government use Google to target individuals or ethnic groups within US?

wildrhythms 2y ago
>how much information is censored on Google.com if any? Is this a serious question? Google removes all sorts of content from its index. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_by_Google#:~:text=Google%20and%20its%20subsidiary%20companies,asked%20Google%20to%20censor%20content https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_by_Google#:~:text=G....
- mrkramer 2y ago
  Majority of those removals are safety removals not ideological censorship based on some socialist or whatever ideology.
  - jmbwell 2y ago
    No its “intellectual property” “protection” based on some capitalist or whatever ideology Same thing, different beneficiaries in power
    - mrkramer 2y ago
      Ok so US doesn't want "socialist" influence in US and China doesn't want "capitalistic" influence in China. Eye for an eye. Problem solved.

op00to 2y ago

> with a simple warrant See the difference?

wildrhythms 2y ago
You are putting a lot of faith in the police and judges that issue those things.
- rvnx 2y ago
  and there is no transparency needed, warrants don't have to be public in most countries.
- thoroughburro 2y ago
  Just a little bit more than my faith in “no oversight whatsoever”, yes.
  - wildrhythms 2y ago
    [flagged]
ceejayoz 2y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSA_warrantless_surveillance_(2001%E2%80%932007)?wprov=sfti1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSA_warrantless_surveillance_(... Not really?
- Forbo 2y ago
  See also: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_construction https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_construction Americans have way more faith in America being the good guys than is warranted.

Geezus_42 2y ago

And Google gave the NSA direct connections into their data centers in order to spy on US citizens in secret.