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Maybe Google's failure to not make the world worse is being spun into an argument on how all technology has its benefits and evils, but the social benefits from Google's tech appear to be outweighed by its social malefices.

You don't have to commit a crime to be targeted, spied on, harassed and have your life destroyed by the government.

When the government spies on innocent people en masse -- because they say they should have nothing to hide --, the government is the one doing harm to an innocent person, and it's the government who has something to hide.

Without accountability, and given the secret and anonymous nature of their interference, we can't trust that the government only spies on guilty people, because they will circularly claim that they are guilty because they are spied on.

And you shouldn't take solace that comparatively only a few innocent people get their lives destroyed, not just because it can happen to you, or because it shouldn't happen in the first place, but because not being accountable for their crimes gradually emboldens the government, and given advances in automation, to scale it up and encompass more of society until one day they come for you or your children.

Methinks it's time for an anti-trust investigation on Google like the one on Microsoft during the Internet Explorer heyday.

At the same time, I don't trust the US has institutions that haven't been sabotaged by successive US administrations (from both sides) in their capacities to pursue anti-trust investigations of this sort.

Europe to the rescue?

Every time I see one of those forms I feel like the hungry, desperate sex workers who "consent" to being degraded and humiliated so that they can feed their families for another day...

We say "yes," but the head shakes "no".

I'd rather if they didn't spy on me in the first place...

What's persistently disturbing is that in a free (black) market the price for that commodity has sunk so low. It means that there's a lot of offer available...

Maybe they have a difficult telling time telling them apart since they all act so similarly...

They're not equal in the eyes of the law...

It looks like a chicken, acts like a chicken, talks like a chicken, so it must secretly be a horse...

We should discover it first and use it against them before anyone else can. National security...

>That's precisely what I expect any functioning and remotely competent secret service to do. Secret services are bound to look into anyone that is involved in anything that might represent a liability and a security threat.

I can see how Jacque's and Pierre's prolific fucking is a threat to their sense of security...

Better document it... It might come in handy...

We can't have the enemy using people's sex lives against them... That's our job...

Otherwise the terrorists will strike again... We repeatedly failed in our capacity to protect the nation, but please trust us... We just need more money and power... National security...

A hired thug who doesn't care who his master is.

Google management gave too much freedom and independence to its techies and now they think they run the company.