Silicon Valley & Sinister monopolists



A good post detailing a few of the abuses Google has been guilty of by Seton Motley:
But it isn’t just ideological.
New America Foundation Think Tank Ousted Google Critic at Search Giant’s Urging: “An influential U.S. think tank cut off ties to an analyst critical of Google’s market dominance under pressure from Eric Schmidt, the search giant’s chairman and a major donor.”
And these are just the very recent stories. Going back a bit….
Going back a bit more….
Even the hugest and Left-est of uber-Left Google supporters – was long ago warning us.
Google is Coming after Critics in Academia and Journalism. It’s Time to Stop Them: “About 10 years ago, Tim Wu, the Columbia Law professor who coined the term network neutrality, made this prescient comment: ‘To love Google, you have to be a little bit of a monarchist, you have to have faith in the way people traditionally felt about the king.’”
Any of you out there a monarchist?
Any of you “have faith in the way people traditionally felt about the king?”
I know one thing – I wouldn’t have been a later 1700s Colonial Royalist. I’d have sided with George Washington, Alexander Hamilton, Ben Franklin, Thomas Jefferson and the rest of the gaggle looking to throw off the yoke of the Crown.
And that’s exactly where I am right now.

Go here to read the rest.  Silicon Valley has gotten a lot of mileage by portraying themselves as harmless geeks.  That hasn’t been true for a very long time.  They are sinister monopolists who wield political and social power the Robber Barons of the nineteenth century would have both envied and been amazed at.