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Re:Why Did Google Erase Cooper's Beloved Literary Blog? by pessimizer on Monday July 25, 2016 @10:24AM (#12158875)
I never read any articles from Murdoch's newspapers unless they're surfaced to me by one of those services. Do you buy a Murdoch paper, or do you get a link on Google News, your Facebook feed, or your favorite Reddit subs? I'm pretty sure I'm a 90% case, not unique.

Of course, it's all just rich people controlling the discourse. Murdoch can buy pieces of Google, Facebook, and Reddit too.

Now, they just get to micromanage it. Micro-censorship, Micro-surveillance.

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Re:Why Did Google Erase Cooper's Beloved Literary Blog? by rodgerd on Monday July 25, 2016 @09:48PM (#12162876)
> I'm pretty sure I'm a 90% case,

I think you're in a profound bubble if you don't imagine Murdoch has vastly more control over public discourse than Google.

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