A purported leak of 2,500 pages of internal documentation from Google sheds light on how Search, the most powerful arbiter of the internet, operates.

The leaked documents touch on topics like what kind of data Google collects and uses, which sites Google elevates for sensitive topics like elections, how Google handles small websites, and more. Some information in the documents appears to be in conflict with public statements by Google representatives, according to Fishkin and King.

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    4 months ago

    Better than those governments having control. Ideal scenario is everything is decentralized

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      4 months ago

      Why is that better? It may not be ideal but governments have at least some accountability.

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        4 months ago

        Because that paves a very easy path to corruption . No freaking way do i wanna live in a country where the government has absolute control over all information spread.

        Don’t get me wrong, fuck Google, but government control of the Internet just sounds worse

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      I agree decentralized is better, but isn’t that an argument in favor of a government having more control than a corporation?

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        No? What I said was “better than governments have control” how is that pro government?

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        Do you have any sort of argument for that or is it just thoughts different, different thoughts bad?