Re:Google is not a search engine, but an ad engine
by scarface74 on Sunday December 15, 2019 @12:34PM
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What do you think will happen when politicians control a search engine? Would you also want to nationalize the press?
Re:Google is not a search engine, but an ad engine
by sampo on Sunday December 15, 2019 @05:55PM
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BBC is perhaps the most famous state owned media corporation. What happens because the British politicians control the BBC?
Re:Google is not a search engine, but an ad engine
by scarface74 on Sunday December 15, 2019 @06:05PM
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I don’t know. But I do know that NPR and PBS have at times been targets of conservatives because of the little funding they get from the government.
I’m sure there would be just as much consternation from Democrats if the situation was reversed.
It also encourages giving “both sides” equal weight whether they deserve it or not.
Re:Google is not a search engine, but an ad engine
by axython on Sunday December 15, 2019 @12:12PM
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Nationalize it? In which country? US? How do you think that will be accepted by basicly any other country out there?
Re:Google is not a search engine, but an ad engine
by BlueTemplar on Monday December 16, 2019 @10:08AM
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They will start to seriously consider their own alternatives, which they should have done a long time ago ? (Especially after Snowden revelations, which showed that the US government basically could do whatever it wanted with Google.)
Now, one issue here is that Google the search engine cannot be "just split". The least good, but easy way, is probably to nationalize it (since it's akin to basic infrastructure at this point.) A better, but harder way, is to figure out how it can be decentralized...