Comment on Trying to avoid antitrust suits, Google senior executives told employees to destroy messages

PunkRockSportsFan@fanaticus.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• Thekingoflorda@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Eh, you sure we want to give control of that shit to Trump and his people?

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  • tux0r@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I’m not sure whether it could be worse.

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    • catloaf@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      It would be worse. They would use that access to target people.

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      • Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Do you think anything is stopping them now? Why do you think these systems were built?

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      • umbrella@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        they already are.

        its been a while since snowden leaked that to us.

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    • beejjorgensen@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Yes, it’s a lot worse. The particular difference is that one of these organizations has the power to disappear you without consequence.

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    • vivendi@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I know people like to hate on google, but google is actually like 3 companies in a trench coat.

      They do highly valuable open source / open ecosystem work (I will say the chance of you indirectly using a google tool without knowing is over 90% now) and if the American government, a capitalist fascist government no less, gets their hands on it, we’re fucked

      Not all of google is adsense or YouTube.

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      • tux0r@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I hope there’s no Google in my life.

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  • umbrella@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    they already have these companies wiretapped since thearly 2000s

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• TheTechnician27@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I read this as “incinerate”. A principled, pragmatic opposition to the death penalty in any case I can think of is the only reason I would disapprove.

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• captainastronaut@seattlelunarsociety.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Are you kidding?? They are way more accountable now to Wall Street and what’s left of US federal regulators and still-useful regulators like the EU. If nationalized they would answer to no one.

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