[raisedbyninjas]

So I actually watched the video. Jen Gennai said that if Google is broken up the pieces won't be as effective at thwarting the next "Trump Situation". The frauds a Veritas interpret this as preventing the free and fair election of their favored candidate. Mrs. Gennai said she used imprecise words in a bar conversation when she didn't know she was being recorded. She likely meant that are making an attempt to reduce the spread of fake news, information silo-ing in their news aggregation and still keep user engagement up. Automating the identification of truth is certainly hard, and maybe harder without the resources of a unified Google.

[jlawson]

The idea that a single group of people should be 'auditing the identification of truth' with no transparency, no diversity of viewpoint, and no accountability is frighteningly Orwellian.

We are headlong sprinting towards a dark future of corporate control over human expression and democracy itself. And you're helping the megacorps consolidate power because the already convinced you that the people criticizing them are icky.

[raisedbyninjas]

Truth arbitration does indeed have dark potential and I'll be critical of it without transparency of the process. The people in the video criticizing Google convinced me they are icky because I listened to what they say.

[vangelis]

You're free to not give Google money and to create your own services. Otherwise buddy, that's just capitalism.