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A new Project Veritas report includes an undercover video, leaked documents, and statements from a whistleblower that all paint a grim picture of Google's apparent lack of fairness, and its bias.
Google's now a very powerful company, and that's upsetting both sides in the US political divide.
As a consequence, many politicians are looking for ways to contain that power – either by applying antitrust or some other type of legislation against the company.
In the comments recorded in an undercover video, Google's Head of Responsible Innovation, Jen Gennai, cheerfully and not without a hint of hubris acknowledges that Google has been called to appear before Congress many times – but simply chose to ignore those invitations.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 04 2019, @03:34AM (11 children)
We are living the dystopian future of big tech where Google, Amazon, Apple, and Facebook rule the world. Billionaire fortunes are made from advertising, undocumented immigrants are a hot topic, random nobodies operate their own streaming channels, and the Earth is orbited by privately launched satellite space junk. About the only difference in real life is the government gives away free smartphones instead of free television sets. Technology has improved but social media controls politics today just as predicted in 1987.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Monday November 04 2019, @03:53AM (8 children)
Damn you! Now I have to find that show and watch it.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by takyon on Monday November 04 2019, @03:55AM (6 children)
Try downloading it on your cellular device.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 04 2019, @04:09AM
Blank Reg would want you to pirate it.
https://www1.swatchseries.to/serie/max_headroom [swatchseries.to]
You're welcome.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Monday November 04 2019, @04:18AM (4 children)
I would but I'm old and can't hold my cellular device close enough to my eyes (and still be able to focus on it) that it has the same apparent screen size as the big ole TV does from my bed. Getting old is annoying.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 04 2019, @04:28AM (3 children)
Old? Sounds like you're a candidate for the body bank. Don't worry, your involuntarily donated organs will enrich the 1%.
(Score: 2, Disagree) by The Mighty Buzzard on Monday November 04 2019, @05:15AM (2 children)
Joke's on them then, none of them are worth having except the brain and the penis.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 04 2019, @05:59AM (1 child)
Yes, we know you have the world's smallest brain and the world's smallest penis.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Monday November 04 2019, @01:52PM
Well of course I do. You left them here. They're on the end table by the door if you ever decide you want to start using either.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by Mojibake Tengu on Monday November 04 2019, @04:53AM
Was a game on Spectrum too.
Respect Authorities. Know your social status. Woke responsibly.
(Score: 4, Funny) by Rosco P. Coltrane on Monday November 04 2019, @03:54AM (1 child)
Is that Orwell's less successful novel about the tyranny of social media?
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 04 2019, @04:22AM
Max Headroom, TV Series (1987–1988) [imdb.com]
The overall premise was of mega-corporations using television networks to control politics and government, but today big tech social media corporations own the streaming video platforms that are replacing television. See Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+, Facebook Watch, and Google YouTube.