Posted on 12/14/2018 6:38:42 PM PST by snarkpup
Google works with establishment conservative think tanks that argue against regulating the tech giant, one of which had its pro-Google opinions published in National Review, according to a new report.
Audio recordings obtained by Wired reveal that Google cooperates with and funds a range of establishment conservatives in D.C. that help it fend off scrutiny and oversight from politicians. The organizations named in Wired’s report are the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI), and the Cato Institute.
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In case anyone still takes bought-and-paid-for establishment arguments about free markets and competition seriously, that’s a special privilege Silicon Valley gets from the state, not from the free market.
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We need the same law europe recently passed, where YOU own your data, and have the right to have everything deleted. The right to be forgotten.
It is being suppressed here, even discussing it in the msm.
This is Surveillance Capitalism, which is 1/3 of the problem with Big Tech. The other 2/3 are censorship and manipulation of the public (election influencing in particular).
Will the Fredocons continue to offer cruises?
Yes. We don't need government bureaucrats and trial lawyers figuring out how to do that. It's a tech problem and will be solved by new competitive tech.
You support hatreon? You want the government to compel Visa to accept funds for Richard Spencer?
Sure, I will take bitcoin, I already do. The whole entire point of Richard Spencer’s existence is so the leftist media can have a convenient nazi poster boy to point to. Of course the government run by the mostly leftist state would like to keep that going. Of course they would love to compel Visa to collect money from complete idiots donating to Richard Spencer.
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