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Rather Curmudgeonly's avatar

For gawdsakes - let Google kill the advertising-based model. It isn't like there is no alternative. We pay for the content we want here and Google can eat shit and die. And we don't get blasted with corporate slime.

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Thoughtful Reader's avatar

But it works FOR THEM. Everything they do WORKS FOR THEM. (Or their chosen tools in government.) WE don’t matter one tiny bit.

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Rather Curmudgeonly's avatar

For many years my primary if not sole concern was with govt power and the abuse thereof. The one redeeming aspect of capitalism is you are not forced to use any company's service/product - not even Google. What the bastards did figure out is that we are willing to sacrifice almost everything for convenience, and they use that against us.

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Thoughtful Reader's avatar

And it’s not just Google - Amazon servers, the entire banking/credit system - everything can be depleted if they choose. (Check Parler’s experience for the full-court-press.)

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Rather Curmudgeonly's avatar

Yes, and where govt grants monopoly power - directly or indirectly. The corporations end up serving their masters, for a corporation is a creation of the State, and in the end, to the State it returns.

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