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> Their business model isn’t literally to corrupt people’s minds, addict them to controversy and clastic words and profit from that.

Ever heard of the Youtube alt-right rabbit hole? Google absolutely profits from hateful, extremist content.



They profit from it, sure, but it’s not them creating the content. Google are the people selling printing presses.

The Daily Mail, Prager U, that little Speedy Gonzalez Jewish prick, and Alex Jones are the ones making the content.

That’s the difference


That is demonstrably wrong. Google is not a printing press provider, they are a bookstore.

Printing press manufacturers do not provide book recommendations. Youtube does, 24/7, for every single customer walking through its doors.


yet any attempt to counteract that (natural human) perversion of the platform they provide, and an angry mob forms and yells "censorship" and "anti trust"




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