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Re:YouTube AI deletes war crimes evidence as 'extremist mate... by ComodoHacker on Saturday August 12, 2017 @02:33PM (#14999208)
>I now fully support breaking up Google, Amazon, Facebook and Microsoft; may be Apple.

OTOH, only their shitloads of money allow them to resist government demands to hack a user's phone or hand over users' data in their cloud. Every cloud has a silver lining.

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Re:YouTube AI deletes war crimes evidence as 'extremist mate... by greenyoda on Saturday August 12, 2017 @03:24PM (#14999519)
Microsoft, Google, Facebook and Apple were all participants in the NSA's PRISM surveillance program that Edward Snowden disclosed:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM_(surveillance_program)#M...

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Re:YouTube AI deletes war crimes evidence as 'extremist mate... by thaumasiotes on Saturday August 12, 2017 @02:42PM (#14999264)
> only their shitloads of money allow them to resist government demands to hack a user's phone

Their extreme centralization makes it much easier for the government to make those demands. I think you're more right than wrong, though.

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Re:YouTube AI deletes war crimes evidence as 'extremist mate... by AmIFirstToThink on Saturday August 12, 2017 @07:01PM (#15000509)
Government changes, at least every eight years.

The fiefdoms of AFGAM are there for pretty much life.

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