Posted on 10/10/2018 5:00:40 AM PDT by Mount Athos
It’s really not hard. I’ve not deliberately used a Google service in years. I blacklist their domains on my home firewall, block their ad services in my browsers, and I refuse to use services they own (e.g. YouTube).
I’ve been in IT for over 20 years, so I’m not a complete rube. I understand that there are tendrils that make their way into everything we do, but for all that I can do to avoid them, I do.
They really think they are special. Trump was right about them.
FTA: Another example of “users behaving badly” is a tweet by Donald Trump
during his 2016 campaign, which accused Google of biasing its search
engine to favor Hillary Clinton. This claim was backed up by independent
research, but Google’s briefing labels it a “conspiracy theory.”
[[Leaked Google Briefing Admits Abandonment of Free Speech for ‘Safety And Civility’]]
And with that statement, we’re not far off from being jailed for expressing dissatisfaction with the government or major entity
Well there ya have it.
I’d still rather use Apple’s OS vs. Google’s. I work closely with the security side of the technology world, and I can tell you that Google’s operating environments are prone to more problems than Apple’s.
For a search engine, use DuckDuckGo. No tracking. No saving your data.
“Are we destined to fight the same battles against the same bad ideas and ideals again?”
From Dawn to Decadence by Barzun shows these ideas raising their ugly heads periodically throughout the 500-year period the book covers.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/58233.From_Dawn_to_Decadence
A quick search of the CVE database shows 1376 open vulnerabilities for Apple iOS while Android is more than triple that at 4788. You can disagree with me on a personal level, but the number of exploits for Google-based devices exceeds that of Apple.
And to be fair, I’m a Microsoft engineer. A search of Microsoft Windows against the CVE database shows 2218 entries.
I’m not saying that any one platform is superior. I’m using industry-standard platform metrics to point out susceptibility to attack. Do with that what you will.
This is one of the first steps of their master plan to turn the United States into a totalitarian state of “their beliefs.” Like communists all around the world, other people’s opinions do not matter. It has to be their way or they want to lynch you. They ever get total control, hell will reign. This is the road America is going down. Hell awaits what is left of this nation. This nation is the next Venezuela.
Bkmrk.
Duck Duck Go with the Brave browser.
Google 1984. An internal company briefing produced by Google and leaked exclusively to Breitbart News argues that due to a variety of factors, including the election of President Trump, the “American tradition” of free speech on the internet is no longer viable. Despite leaked video footage showing top executives declaring their intention to ensure that the rise of Trump and the populist movement is just a “blip” in history, Google has repeatedly denied that the political bias of its employees filter into its products.
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3695245/posts
“You cannot be civil with a political party that wants to destroy what you stand for, what you care about.That’s why I believe, if we are fortunate enough to win back the House and or the Senate, that’s when civility can start again. But until then, the only thing that the Republicans seem to recognize and respect is strength.”
I realized that in her attempt to be relevant again it’s something more this time; Hillary is actually jumping on the “get in their face” bandwagon. “Listen up America! There will be no civility until you give the Democrats some power back. I’ll wait until 2020 to take the presidency but by God we better get either the house and/or the Senate this fall or there will be hell to pay!” This is clearly a bribe: if you want an end to the mayhem, put an end to the Republican control of government.
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3695253/posts
“In these strange and troubling times, it is hard to speak unpalatable truths to power, but I believe we all still have a duty to do so,” Steele wrote. “I salute those on your list, and otherwise, who have had the courage to speak out over the last year, often at great personal cost.
Christopher Steele
“At a time when governance is so distorted and one-sided, as I believe it currently is in the United States, the media has a key role to play in holding it accountable.”
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3695251/posts
There are absolutely pockets of rage – violent enclaves studded with people who are nothing more than domestic terrorists. Full-on fascists who unironically call themselves anti-fascists.
In Portland yesterday, some people in masks (and some who brazenly went without them) took over a major intersection and “directed” traffic, shouting obscenities and racial slurs toward white drivers. An elderly man became fearful and drove through them. They chased him down and began striking his vehicle with batons and rocks. AN OLD MAN. They were within minutes of beating him, according to reports. Meanwhile, the police “monitored” the situation from a distance, allowing the mob free reign. (Read more at Zero Hedge.) Near Portland, arsonists actually set fire to a truck bearing a couple of pro-Trump stickers.
In Kentucky, Senator Rand Paul’s wife sleeps with a gun. Fear is now a constant companion for her. She wrote an open letter to Senator Corey Booker that was published on CNN, calling him out for urging people to “get up in Congresspeoples’ faces.” Booker isn’t the only member of Congress who is inciting violence, either. Judicial Watch has filed an ethics complaint against Representative Maxine Waters for “inciting violence and assaults on the Trump Cabinet.”
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