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Lauren Weinstein
@lauren@mastodon.laurenweinstein.org  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

***** WARNING REGARDING GOOGLE/ALPHABET *****

#Google (#Alphabet) is reinstating the worst of #YouTube creators who were "permanently" banned for COVID-19 and election integrity misinformation. Alphabet is now saying "Biden made them do the bans."

Clearly, billionaire CEO Sundar -- who we've seen palling around with Trump of course -- has gone full MAGA. Google is purposely conflating -- that is, purposely confusing -- necessary moderation to protect people and elections from masses of misinformation designed to mislead them, often in devastating ways -- from censorship created to suppress specific valid points of view.

There is an enormous difference -- Sundar and his Alphabet minions know this full well. They also know that their Gemini AI is a source of often dangerous misinformation on a planetary scale, and it's likely this has also entered into their recently (in a letter to Congress) announced changes.

Given Google's enthusiastic embrace of MAGA, I do not consider my past statements applauding the security and privacy of user information at Google to be reliable guidance moving forward from now. I have no confidence that Sundar would not quickly (or ultimately) agree to virtually any demands made by the Trump administration, however invasive or illegal they might actually be.

I do not have specific recommendations for alternatives to Google or their services, so please don't ask me for them! But I do recommend keeping the obvious shift in Google's behavior in mind, and you would be wise to assume that they are fully and completely in bed with fascist Trump in many ways -- or soon will be -- absent clear and convincing evidence to the contrary.

If Google/Alphabet wishes to discuss any of this with me and point out any errors in my analysis, they know my email address.

Take care, all.

L

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WorldTravelerAll7
@WorldTravelerAll7@mastodon.world replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

@lauren

Yay🎉
I've tried to get people to discuss this for a another reason: 𝘼𝙡𝙡 #liberal #media is on #Youtube

how long will the appeasers of #Google stand up to #TACO, or will they cave & take down or shadowban💙Us "domestic terrorists"? (his fascist admin use that term for lib media & YT is already #shadowbanning #blue 💙voices)

I just learned about #peertube which is the 1st potential alt to YT, but that's only IF💙We make it one

Further thoughts from me on this😊

https://open.substack.com/pub/worldtravelerall7/p/operation-engage?r=56nrnz&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false

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chikl
@chikl@digitalcourage.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

@lauren A source would be really nice

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Lauren Weinstein
@lauren@mastodon.laurenweinstein.org replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

@chikl I'm tired of people bitching when it turns out they can't access any given source, for whatever reasons. Easy to find; exercise for the reader.

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chikl
@chikl@digitalcourage.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

@lauren A neutral sentence and you are talking about bitching?

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Troed Sångberg
@troed@masto.sangberg.se replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

@lauren

Massive list of alternatives to the various different Google products: https://github.com/tycrek/degoogle

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Chris Johnson
@cxj@phpc.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

@lauren Fuck #Alphabet and #Google.

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