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by otikik 45 days ago
Well "to control" means two different things: "having the ability to modify or interrupt something" and "having the willingness to exert that ability".

OP says Google has the first. You are saying Google doesn't have the second. Both of you are right in that sense. You are wrong in the sense that the second doesn't matter much here.

If I remove my hands from the wheel of my car, while it would be technically true that I was not "driving" it from that point, if I run over some pedestrian they will counter, rightfully, that the vehicle was under my control the whole time.

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> You are saying Google doesn't have the second.

No. Nearer the first.

"to order, limit, or rule something, or someone's actions or behaviour".

Google's parrot is out of its control.

Who pays the eletricity for the server generating this nonsense?