TheDarkMan
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The phrase “Google is your friend” is a sarcastic response to a stupid question; it means don’t waste my time, use your search engine, in particular the world’s number one search engine. But is Google really your friend?
Since the covid pandemic and even before that, Google has been accused of left wing bias. Dan Bongino who left and/or was kicked off YouTube regularly lambasts it as Marxist. Is that claim fair? The short answer is no, but as usual, things are a little more complicated.
Before going any further, let us look back to how it all started. Google was founded officially on September 4, 1998 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin; both men are computer scientists so this was initially less a business venture than a scientific one. YouTube was initially a different company; it was founded in 2005 by three former Paypal employees and acquired by Google the following year.
Page and Brin are or were both politically Libertarians although they have both donated to the Democratic Party. It has to be noted that the Democratic Party has been totally corrupted since the 2016 election and even before that there were serious concerns with some of the activities of the Obama Administration.
Google has been criticised for skewing search engine results; YouTube has been shadow banning many “right wing” content creators, and many channels have been taken down or issued with strikes, but in view of much of the content uploaded, no reasonable person could claim it is an arm of either the Democratic Party or the US Government, or that it bows readily to censorship.
While it is true that Google fired James Damore for writing a memo that pointed out (correctly) that (most) women haven’t got what it takes when it comes to coding, the company was also sued by a bunch of feminist agitators for sex discrimination.
Although it is one of the largest companies in the world, Google has been targeted by left wing agitators as have many other corporations. Most companies don’t want and can’t afford the hassle; Google is no exception. These people are most active on YouTube where they are constantly flagging videos and reporting channels for “hate speech” and other imaginary dastardly deeds, but such complaints don’t all come from “left wing” sources. For example, there are a number of channels run by Christian apologists who churn out a never ending stream of videos attacking Islam. Unsurprisingly, these channels and their videos have often been reported by Moslems who feel aggrieved. Nick Rekeita is a legal pundit whose YouTube channel was closed after a mass flagging campaign by transgender fanatics.
Allowing for all this including the banning of Alex Jones and the purging of “white supremacists”, there are too many right wing, Conservative and Republican YouTubers to mention for YouTube and Google to be accused of bias, but here are a few:
Blaze TV
Daily Wire
Epoch Times
Fox News including especially Tucker Carlson
Jason Whitlock
Judicial Watch
One America News
Steven Crowder
The Quartering
Tim Pool
WION (major Indian news outlet)
Google is still and hopefully will remain a force for good. People who criticise Google should look first and foremost to those who pressurise it, particularly from behind the scenes, as we are currently seeing with the treasure trove of mendacity being exposed at Twitter by Elon Musk.
The statements, views and opinions expressed in this column are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of this site. This site does not give financial, investment or medical advice.
Methinks you’re being too generous to Google. They are the 800 pound gorilla that makes even Twitter look like a little tweety bird.
All I have to say is Google (Jewgle) was never your friend, as they are in the business of Perception management. They censoring search results and also amending their search results for Political and Social ideological reasons.
Just try typing “David duke website” into their search bar and you will see what I mean. I could give a plethora of other examples.
TheDarkMan, you published an article yesterday on The Duran, which was taking down for some unknown reason? Here is an excerpt form your article- “West appears to believe that Jewish executives control the music business…” This was my reply, which I was unable to post as the article was taking down? Which they obviously do, as well as controlling Hollywood, Corporate and Social Media and most importantly, the Federal Reserve private bank that prints the US Dollar. According to Forbes, Kanye West $2000 Million fortune has been reduced down to $4 million, after his episode of what I can only… Read more »
You’re probably the reason the article was taken down. It has been archived and was republished today on Substack. Feel free to leave a comment, and maybe buy me a coffee.
Google is one of the most pervasive things in our lives. They’re constantly looking for ways to get into every nook and cranny of peoples’ lives. Just look at the pervasive Google interface between Android and the rest of your phone being another example. I’m proud to be able to say de-googling my phone leaving me with the original OpenAndroid, was the last clearing of the Google swamp from my life. Instead of the pervasive Google play store, I’ve been using F-droid and apkPure, stores packed full of open source apps. The only thing related to Google on my phone… Read more »
I went down the same path as you back in 2008, with open source and jailbroken software, but it dawned on me it was a fools errand, as your phone monitors you at the hardware level as well as the software level. ALL devices connected to the Internet are there to monitor you, like the Telescreens in 1984, but clandestinely, and a VPN will only hide you from your ISP, not government agencies. My advice to you is to keep your phone in a lead lined box, like I do. Make sure you build your own lead lined box,… Read more »
Thanks Crass. Yes I have two Faraday pouches as well as a 2nd phone which is a 3G one. Whenever I’ve gone on the anti-lockdown marches in London, I only ever take the 3G with me and definitely not the 4G. People falsely arrested by the Police have often had their 4G phones broken when the Police try to grab data from them at the station. Not so much data to grab from a 3G phone. I think it maybe a bit harsh to say removing the Microsoft and especially Google swamp from our phones and computers is a fool’s… Read more »
I remember back in 2005 I was doing maintenance on a CCTV Security System I installed in a local Shopping Centre. The Security Control Room (where the I was working on the Security Camera Hard Drive system), was rang by the Garda Síochána (Police), who asked security had they seen a 13 year old girl on the perimeter CCTV System. I made my way down from the control room, and offered my assistance to the Garda Síochána to find the missing girl, as she had emotionally threatened to commit suicide to her mother on her mobile phone. I walked with… Read more »
A fine example of when technology is used positively. Cell tower triangulation has been with us ever since cell towers of course and I’m not perturbed if today such triangulation can pin-point a phone’s location down to a square centimeter. Rightfully or wrongfully, I’m of the view though that triangulation is not designed for mass ‘real-time’ geo-location. That presumably is what the 4G and above phones GPS are also used for. And so again, rightfully or wrongfully, I’m of the view that if Google’s Android interface has been removed, the only s/ware available to control the phone’s GPS hardware, is… Read more »
There are other sensors in smartphones that were ostensibly not designed to track location, but can be used to track the users location. This is why I am saying you are tracked at the hardware level and there is nothing you can do about it. I also do not believe that the GPS is actually turned off, just because my phone tells me it is off.
Do a search for ‘How GPS can track you, even when you turn it off’.
I believe that smartphones are analogous to the telescreens in 1984 that George Orwell warned us about.