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

• 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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  • tempest@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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      • spooky2092@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I think you’ve got it backwards. Like the other person said, this shit was built to make money, the power and control came later. Said power and control also came from the mobeypartially from the money, since money is just power coupons, and they used that to buy up competitors and regulators alike.

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  • wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Profits. Dead people don’t pay.

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    • Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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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• umbrella@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  they already are.

  its been a while since snowden leaked that to us.

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