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Comment by 9283409232

1 year ago

I assumed that Sundar budding up to Trump was to get this killed in the water among other benefits so I wonder if this will pan out or if Trump will step in.

Trump is going to demand a lot more than the few million Google donated for that. I doubt Trump would settle for anything less than a public grovelling to every Google/YouTube user (like TikTok), serious and significant pro-Trump tinkering with the ranking algorithms, or maybe a few billion purchase of $TRUMP.

  • I'm sure he'd settle for downranking every journalist he doesn't like and increasing the rank of every news source that fellates him.

It's been a transition, but, one of the parts I've learned to be thankful for, as a newly experienced citizen under fascism, is the link between paternal fascism and bread and circus. I missed in my 2008 era Poli Sci that there was a link between the two