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

• tempest@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Profits. Dead people don’t pay.

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  • Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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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