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Mr Maduro accused the opposition of producing fake evidence to contest the result of the election and said the US was behind what he described as a farce and a coup attempt.

Wouldn’t be the first time

We are all travelling through time right now with very little impact.

Yes I know, I suck.

Just simulate a school and you’d place first

One real reason to boycott them is that they aren’t trans friendly.

It is good they’re getting a payrise. They deserve it. But shouldn’t businesses be paying their workers?

That’s not in anyone’s interest. It’s the surest way to have a thousand national search engines which are all shitty. National walled internet Gardens etc

Break it up instead

The idea stems from the propaganda tool that would be if it were state owned. Other countries would seriously discourage or ban its use, but as it is useful they’d need a replacement. Hence a thousand shitty ones.

That hasn’t been the case if you look into what happened with Microsoft and browsers.

The other thing is

everyone would still use Google.

Is actually wrong, and what they proved with the antitrust case itself. A huge chunk of the anticompetitive activity was Google paying to be the default because people don’t change the default.

How is it not currently a propaganda tool? It’s owned by shareholders like blackrock and vanguard. At least with it being nationalized it’s possible to control it democratically

It is somewhat, but it’s not as bad as if it was run by Trump and co.

Which is how x would become the whole internet.
Which is why the best option. Which you didn’t include, is splitting Google up. Split the advertising from search. This is the surest way to make them cater to us. Especially if we can force them to compete with other search engines.

I think what we’re running into here, is that you want to talk about removing capitalism. Which I’m all for, in the context of a functional democracy. Which isn’t the case in the US or anywhere in the world.

Until we know what that looks like, and its parameters you won’t admit how bad nationalising a search engine is without other privately owned alternatives.