Science Salty Google Fires Researchers - is google the new yahoo?

Warning that monopolies are a threat to democracy and that Google may be a monopoly, he is fired from a Google funded think tank without explanation.

http://www.businessinsider.com/new-america-fires-antitrust-researcher-critical-of-google-2017-8

 

[Miss Hortensia]

he is fired from a Google funded think tank without explanation.

I guess, the most of us don't need an explanation, since the action speaks for itself...

 

[Tranhuviya]

that Google may be a monopoly,

I think that ship's well out of port by now, nigga.

 

[WireSponge]

I don't think I've met a single person who actually likes Google as a company. Sure, everyone uses their products, but that's just because they're a monopoly. At the very least I can say that I myself eagerly await the day Google fucks up YouTube so bad that people mass migrate to a new website, and (optimistically) hope they manage to flounder their other business ventures in a similar manner so I never have to use one of their websites again.

 

[Johnny Bravo]

The best thing Trump could do for America is break up these cancerous monopolies but we all know he won't.

 

[Goofy Logic]

I have to wonder about the subtitle text. I thought Yahoo is dying because they let their web models stagnate well past obsolescence. Could someone elaborate on how the reason might be political?

 

[The Fool]

I don't think I've met a single person who actually likes Google as a company. Sure, everyone uses their products, but that's just because they're a monopoly. At the very least I can say that I myself eagerly await the day Google fucks up YouTube so bad that people mass migrate to a new website, and (optimistically) hope they manage to flounder their other business ventures in a similar manner so I never have to use one of their websites again.

I just use YouTube really. All their products are shit. Like unusable levels of shit.
If you use Android you are a subhuman, no exceptions.

 

[DeadwastePrime]

Warning that monopolies are a threat to democracy and that Google may be a monopoly, he is fired from a Google funded think tank without explanation.

wait, doesnt the us have anti monopoly laws?

 

[tehpope]

Yes, but Lobbyists.

 

[AnOminous]

I don't think I've met a single person who actually likes Google as a company. Sure, everyone uses their products, but that's just because they're a monopoly. At the very least I can say that I myself eagerly await the day Google fucks up YouTube so bad that people mass migrate to a new website, and (optimistically) hope they manage to flounder their other business ventures in a similar manner so I never have to use one of their websites again.

What Google did that gave it monopoly status was establishing the biggest, best and fastest search engine for the web, which finally made the web semi-useful. Before them (well before AltaVista), many people who had been on the Internet before it considered the web absolute fucking cancer, an enormous waste of bandwidth, and on top of that, practically fucking useless. (I still think that, but for different reasons.)

Arguably, they started out as a natural monopoly and with good intentions.

That's pretty much long gone. They still do have a number of the killer apps of the web but their monopoly is considerably less benign these days, and they're now arguably more evil than the government.

 

[Alec Benson Leary]

That's pretty much long gone. They still do have a number of the killer apps of the web but their monopoly is considerably less benign these days, and they're now arguably more evil than the government.

They're worse than the government. The government at least acts under the premise that it must be limited and that the judgment of any individual leaders is inherently flawed and subject to review and restriction. I weep for the people of any nation whose bill of rights ends up being just the words "don't be evil".

 

[Takayuki Yagami]

They're worse than the government. The government at least acts under the premise that it must be limited and that the judgment of any individual leaders is inherently flawed and subject to review and restriction. I weep for the people of any nation whose bill of rights ends up being just the words "don't be evil".

They changed that to "do the right thing." Orwellian little shits.

 

[Alec Benson Leary]

They changed that "do the right thing." Orwellian little shits.

If they amended that to include "blacklist anyone who disagrees on what the right thing is" it'd be a tad more honest.

 

[___-]

Breakup Google like they did with AT&T back in the day, it's the only way.

 

[BadaBadaBoom]

They know when you are logged on;
they have all your emails;
they log all your search history;
so 'do the right thing' without fail.

You better be left;
seal your thoughts tight;
they will decide what's wrong or what's right.
Google is the only game in towwwwn.

 

[CWCchange]

The best thing Trump could do for America is break up these cancerous monopolies but we all know he won't.

Breakup Google like they did with AT&T back in the day, it's the only way.

Google can't even be broken up the same way because it's virtual. Besides, breaking up Standard Oil and AT&T was a retarded, especially when the latter is a natural monopoly as a utility and eventually it all merged back as an oligopoly or got bought by foreign competition.

Pretty much all that can be done is to join the European Union in fining Google and demand they stop excluding competition, and hope innovation in the future chips away at Google or makes it antiquated like AltaVista.

 

[___-]

Google can't even be broken up the same way because it's virtual. Besides, breaking up Standard Oil and AT&T was a exceptional, especially when the latter is a natural monopoly as a utility and eventually it all merged back as an oligopoly or got bought by foreign competition.

Pretty much all that can be done is to join the European Union in fining Google and demand they stop excluding competition, and hope innovation in the future makes chips away at Google or makes it antiquated like AltaVista.

Make different services different companies.

 

[Takayuki Yagami]

Make different services different companies.

Thats supposed to be the point of them splitting everything into Alphabet, but time's shown how little that means.

 

[CWCchange]

Make different services different companies.

Microsoft, Verizon, etc. have comparable services to Alphabet/Google, and it wouldn't change the fact Google Search and YouTube each hold the overwhelming majority of the market share.

 

[___-]

Microsoft, Verizon, etc. have comparable services to Alphabet/Google, and it wouldn't change the fact Google Search and YouTube each hold the overwhelming majority of the market share.

That's the point of what I just said at all.