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2000: Don't be evil.

2023: Everyone who disagrees with us is evil.

2000: We just want to give people all the information they could use to improve their lives.

2023: We just want to give people all the information they could use to share all our proper beliefs, be more like us, and do as they're told (but gently and quietly).

Is amazing how kind, caring and compassionate everyone is when they have limited power and crave more or when they have something to sell, and then how different they become after all their power dreams have been fulfilled.

About a decade ago America faced a fork in the road: either govern Big Tech or be governed by it. But that was an easy problem to solve (for the Silicon Valley billionaire class): just buy off every politician, make sure to invite them on your private jet on the way to your private island, give their kids fancy jobs and titles, and instead of battling as corporations vs government turn the government into one corporation (and vice versa) and rule together as a single united ruling class. And if there's any speed bumps down the road, just fiddle with the algorithms until most people either see you as benevolent or don't see the issue at all.

Google et al and their convergence with the globalist ruling class and our governments to create an omniscient omnipotent epistemic dictatorship makes HAL from Kubrick's "2001" look like a caveman playing with bones.

Thanks again, Brad, great job!

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devoalan's avatar

I read most of this, but got so pissed off reading it,I had to quit. Great stuff. We need server locations for the future.

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