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

• vivendi@programming.dev ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I hope there’s no Google in my life.

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• beejjorgensen@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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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• catloaf@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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  • Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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    • wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Profits. Dead people don’t pay.

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      • Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Dead people also have no claim on the present or future. You can own more, even when the pie is shrinking if you negate others claims.

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    • tempest@lemmy.ca ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I mean they were built to make money, the fact that you can send them a national security letter is just a happy accident that keeps the NSA from having to run more datacenters.

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      • Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I respectfully disagree. They were built for power and control. Monestisation just paid for it and helped adoption.

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