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I didn't realize what was happening and used to be a booster for Google. I still own Google stock. But, now I'm don't like what they do as a company. I've defi
by xrd 2y ago
I didn't realize what was happening and used to be a booster for Google. I still own Google stock.
But, now I'm don't like what they do as a company. I've definitely changed my mind.
I think what worries me is not what is happening now. I think about how Twitter almost died in 2016 and was very close to selling a bunch of exact location data on their users. To a cell company who wanted to know when users were going into their competitors stores. That's so nuts that two parties were actually in conversation about that. Corporate desperation is worse than a fentanyl addict, sometimes.
https://x.com/stevekrenzel/status/1589700722983305216 https://x.com/stevekrenzel/status/1589700722983305216
I bring it up because if Google is broken up as the Trump administration intends to do, the world inside Google will be chaos. Anything can happen. If one of the businesses spun out of Google decides it will be best for them long term to sell my data collected ten years ago to the Belarusian secret service, what's to stop them? Nothing really is stopping them now, but in moments of chaos, really crazy unexpected things can happen. Maybe it won't be the Belarusian secret service, maybe it will be my health care company who buys some innocuous like I made on Google+ and I'll be permanently relegated to some un-insurable class of people living in Trump's America.