What these companies are doing is actually a form of instituting and insuring that America becomes a communistic/socialistic society.  Think about it really hard, if need be, and you'll see how it's been happening before our very eyes for several years now and most people don't even notice.  I NOTICED.  I wouldn't join fb for all the tea in China, and I try like hell to avoid google.  It's getting to be more and more impossible every day.  These companies are massive (our fault, we let this happen - we were actually stupid enough to PAY THEM to make this happen) and they have the power to do all this crap. 

What they're doing makes Hitler look like a schoolteacher with manners.

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How Google and Facebook are hurting you

"In recent years, the privacy hazards and dangers to democracy and freedom of thought and speech posed by Google and Facebook have become increasingly apparent and well-recognized. In the summer of 2019, Google showed its true colors by implementing a highly-biased search engine update13 that buried Mercola search results, evaporating 99% of our Google traffic virtually overnight.

Google also has significant influence over urban development,14 health care15,16 and childhood education. In fact, Google’s influence over young children has been a concern for years.17 When you consider Google’s primary business is tracking, compiling, storing and selling personal data, by capturing children at an early age, it will be able to build the most comprehensive personality profiles of the population ever conceived — and there’s no opt-out feature for this data gathering.18

Personal data mining is also Facebook’s primary business. And while the U.S. Federal Trade Commission slapped Facebook with a $5 billion fine on July 24, 2019, to settle privacy breaches,19 this fine amounts to just one month’s worth of revenue,20 and Facebook’s stock actually rose immediately following the FTC’s announcement.21

What’s more, Facebook’s plan to integrate Instagram, Messenger and WhatsApp will make the company’s monopoly even more massive,22 giving Facebook truly unprecedented data mining capabilities.

If you’re still in the dark about how much of yourself you’re giving away to these companies, and what the ramifications might be, see “What Kind of Information Does Google and Facebook Have on You?” "

Last edited by Debrah (August 12, 2019 9:36 pm)