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by kinjba11 1796 days ago
Please tell us how Google "overtly threatens some of our most fundamental human rights" by providing free services? Just saying Google is evil doesn't make a good argument.
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As a starting point: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Google

There are numerous current (and past) legal cases against Google, including numerous antitrust / anticompetitive cases. Several of those hinge on influence and manipulation through that chief organ of a democratic society, media.

Google's role, and YouTube's specifically, in radicalisation, is rather well documented.

"How YouTube Built a Radicalization Machine for the Far-Right" (2018)

It's a target-rich search: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=how+youtube+radicalizes&ia=web https://www.thedailybeast.com/how-youtube-pulled-these-men-d...