Google really needs to change their slogan right about now. So after Google's creepy, cult-like sob session after the election was leaked, now an 85-page internal briefing with the Orwellian-sounding title "The Good Censor" has been leaked as well. As Breitbart reports, the briefing outlines the difference between the "American tradition," which is basically free speech, and the "European tradition," which "favors dignity over liberty and civility over freedom.” (Translation: Gobbledigook that rationalizes censoring speech I don't like.) Given the political opinions of most of the people in Silicon Valley in general and Google in particular, it should be rather obvious what being "The Good Censor" entails. From Breitbart,
And that's just a glimpse of it. And that's just what's admitted to in this briefing.
As I've noted before, Google--and to a lesser degree other tech giants like Apple, Facebook, Amazon and Twitter--is becoming a sort of "government of the Internet." It is basically governing the Internet and search engine traffic in the way that the East India Company governed India during the period of "company rule" from 1757 until after the Sepoy Rebellion. And given the power of surveillance modern technology enables, it's hard to see how anything could throw off its yoke if Google and the other tech giants become truly authoritarian. We should see to it that it doesn't get that far.
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