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Masters of the Universe Town Hall: Schweizer Explains ‘You Don't Know What Information You're Not Getting' in the News
2018-04-06
Excerpt:
[Breitbart] “When you first look at Google on the surface, it’s a great company. They give you this incredible search capability, this access to information basically for free, in the sense that you’re not paying a fee for it, but what you always have to keep in mind, the old saying, ‘The extent for which they can do something for you, they can do something to you,’ and then the question becomes is what are Google’s goals and ends?” claimed Schweizer. “We know they’re a business, we know these guys have become fabulously wealthy, that is certainly part of their goal. There’s a business, they want to make money, but there’s always been lurking this sort of Utopian sense of social mission. However you want to define it, that Google has.”

"We’ve had glimpses of it, but we don’t have a full picture," he continued, adding, "There’s no question they’re manipulating us. The question is why. Some of it, of course, is to monetize, but the other part of it resembles this sort of social mission, this desire to steer us into directions that we may not want to go. To get us to embrace certain ideas or our children to embrace certain ideas and values that they think are important, and the manner in which they do that is precisely what we’ve been discussing."
A true knowledge and awareness 'deep dive.' You don't know what you don't know. Who knew ?
Posted by:Besoeker

#6  Companies like bureaucrats should serve not lead.

The internet has a habit of routing around censorship. I no longer read MSM drivel for instance.
I often use Brave and DDG for browser and search.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles   2018-04-06 15:39  

#5  Cause the death spiral in Caracas is covered nightly, right? Ssshhhh....don't mention socialism. How's that one payer health plan working in the land of abundant oil?

Journalism, covering a story, with a pillow till it dies.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2018-04-06 12:38  

#4  Google and company are just picking up where the MSM left off once the internet removed them from their role as gatekeepers of info.
Posted by: rjschwarz   2018-04-06 12:27  

#3  So. You've been sold. There's a word for that...
Posted by: M. Murcek   2018-04-06 08:22  

#2  When there's no charge for using a product? You're the monetized product
Posted by: Frank G   2018-04-06 07:36  

#1  I know it sounds ridiculous, but you don't suppose there could be some sort of link between knowledge and power.
Posted by: Besoeker   2018-04-06 07:21  

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