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[ PRIVACY Forum ] More on Google and Fascism
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lauren Weinstein)
Tue Dec 2 12:22:38 2025
Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2025 09:14:08 -0800
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More on Google and Fascism
I'll add something here to my previous note about Google and SMS/RCS
message retention, etc. In an "ordinary" world, these changes could at
least be reasonably analyzed in terms of conventional business
practices, absent the total lack of trust that Google has now earned
with CEO Sundar's embrace of Trump's fascism, even donating to his
fascist causes.
All the excuses in the world won't change the fact that ANY feature
capable of being abused by Google is now potentially subject to this
abuse with one email or phone call from a Trump minion. This is (in my
opinion) pretty much ALL on Sundar. It's a trap (an understandable
one) to think these things through in terms of a normal world, not the
U.S. with an authoritarian federal government and willing billionaire CEOs.
The world is different now.
L
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