Why Google May become as bad as Osama Bin Laden - Evil Grows
by
Brett Bumeter
I was going to reply on a discussion forum thread about the Google - terrorist Connection. This was sparked by an article titled, “Is Google the New Terrorist?“ The thread was locked prematurely, and the concept was not fully covered, so I thought I’d open it up some more as I do find it very important to understand where certain actions fall in a sort of continuum of evil.
There are different levels of good and bad and making a binary statement that Google is exactly like Hitler or Osama Bin Laden would not be correct. However, categorically stating that Google is not like Hitler or Bin Laden is also not correct.
Google does have detractors that have found that they might be funding terrorism (just Google it and you will see).
Google is trying to influence the Internet industry by fear instead of incentive, stick instead of carrot.
When a powerful authority influences people by fear, it is intimidation. When a non-authority influences people by fear, its terrorism. Influence by fear can be categorized differently depending on who is doing it and what end of the continuum they fall on.
Fear comes in multiple incarnations from the type of fear that Al Qaeda attempts to use to influence the world to the type of fear that the Nazis used to attempt to influence the world to the type of fear that we see in commercials every day by all types of companies that tell us that if we do not act, something bad will happen to us or our children, so buy this product now.
Google is telling webmasters, publishers, and bloggers that something bad will happen to them if they do not do exactly as Google says, so line up to get on board the Google cattle car express and take a ride into their reality and belief system where the Google Algorithm is God.
Now, they could have provided a competitive solution, an incentive. Google could have chosen to take a direction where they provided webmasters, publishers and bloggers the financial incentive and reward system to go their way, but they chose (financially a cheaper total solution) they chose to hurt webmasters, publishers and bloggers, they chose to take wealth, and money away from people, they chose to do all this to benefit their own bottom line. They chose this to benefit their own algorithm belief system.
Just like Osama Bin Laden, Google is telling the world that it is their way or the highway. They promise people that if they buy into the Google Algorithm Belief System (GABS), that people will be then protected by Google. Good ol’ God Father Google will benevolently protect its children internet surfers, like a gangster extracting protection money through fear, Google is extracting share holder value through fear.
You can call it terrorism and it would be close to right.
You can call it fanaticism or fundamentalism and it would be close to right.
You can call it internet fascism and it would also be close to right.
But make no mistake about it, what Google is doing is definitely evil.
They are justifying their actions, their evil, their fear tactics, with the rationalism that they will help the greater good (by harming a minority), whether or not they are rounding people up for slaughter, or killing people with jet airplanes, or taking food away from a poor family in the US or even the Philippines, they are still harming people. Hitler did not start immediately by sending people to concentration camps, he ramped into it.
Bin Laden did not start out by killing thousands of people right away, he influenced people, curbed them to his belief system and then kicked off a campaign to achieve his sinister goals. Google today is harming people by taking away their wealth and their earning potential and they are harming the people that trust Google to provide uncensored information. Who is to say what they will do tomorrow, when their software is running on everyone’s computer and Gphone and car.
If they can not avoid doing evil today, when they have a large amount of power, what will they do tomorrow when they gain even more power?
The answer, they will do even greater evil and possibly eclipse Osama Bin Laden and Hitler combined.
Oh this is brilliant, much better than my article!
Very well written, congratulations.
Cheers,
Snoskred
This was really well written. The only thing that bothers me is that not enough people are paying attention. And even if someone who is not aware of the situation reads an article like this, apathy will cause them to move along to the next blog.
It is a scary thought. The possibilities for Google to abuse their power increases daily, with each product they put out. It sounds paranoid and crazy now, but I have a feeling that in a few years, it will be widely accepted that yes, Google has great potential for evil.
And I just noticed you have Google Ads. Nice.
Hi Lizzie,
Yup I still have Google Ads. I am definitely not happy with them, but have not decided that a boycott is the right approach either.
Unlike Google, I do not agree with the philosophy of penalizing someone to get them to change their ways. I may yet remove google ads (and analytics) but I am still looking for an alternative path.
It is unfortunate that Google chose to penalize people first instead of finding a strategy that did no harm first.
If I were a doctor, I’d be following the principles of physician heal thyself first and do no harm
Lizzie,
I had seen another comment from you as well that went through my email notification process. When I went to moderate the comment and allow it, I could not find it. Here is the comment as I received it in email.
And my response.
Maybe if we all stopped depending on the Google Crystal Ball of Page Rank, Google’s influence would diminish.