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Criticism of Google includes concern for tax avoidance, misuse and manipulation of search results, its use of others’ intellectual property, concerns that its compilation of data may violate people’s privacy and collaboration with the US military on Google Earth to spy on users,^[1] censorship of search results and content, and the energy consumption of its servers as well as concerns over traditional business issues such as monopoly, restraint of trade, antitrust, patent infringement, indexing and presenting false information and propaganda in search results, and being an “Ideological Echo Chamber”.

Google‘s parent company, Alphabet Inc., is an American multinational public corporation invested in Internet search, cloud computing, and advertising technologies. Google hosts and develops a number of Internet-based services and products,^[2] and generates profit primarily from advertising through its Google Ads (formerly AdWords) program.^[3][4]

Google’s stated mission is “to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful”;^[5] this mission, and the means used to accomplish it, have raised concerns among the company’s critics. Much of the criticism pertains to issues that have not yet been addressed by cyber law.

Shona Ghosh, a journalist for Business Insider, noted that an increasing digital resistance movement against Google has grown.^[6]

Tax evasion

Google cut its taxes by $3.1 billion in the period of 2007 to 2009 using a technique that moves most of its foreign profits through Ireland and The Netherlands to Bermuda. Afterwards, the company started to send £8 billion in profits a year to Bermuda.^[7] Google’s income shifting—involving strategies known to lawyers as the “Double Irish” and the “Dutch Sandwich“—helped reduce its overseas tax rate to 2.4 percent, the lowest of the top five U.S. technology companies by market capitalization, according to regulatory filings in six countries.^[8][9]

According to economist and member of the PvdA delegation inside the Progressive Alliance of Socialists & Democrats in the European Parliament (S&D) Paul Tang, the EU lost, from 2013 to 2015, a loss estimated to be 3.955 billion euros from Google.^[10] When comparing to other countries outside the EU, the EU is only taxing Google with a rate of 0,36 – 0,82% of their revenue (approx. 25-35% of their EBT) whereas this rate is near 8% in countries outside the EU. Even if a rate of 2 to 5% – as suggested by ECOFIN council – would have been applied during this period (2013-2015), a fraud of this rate from Facebook would have meant a loss from 1.262 to 3.155 billion euros in the EU.^[10]

Google has been accused by a number of countries of avoiding paying tens of billions of dollars of tax through a convoluted scheme of inter-company licensing agreements and transfers to tax havens.^[11][12] For example, Google has used highly contrived and artificial distinctions to avoid paying billions of pounds in corporate tax owed by its UK operations.^[13]

On May 15, 2013, Margaret Hodge, the chair of the United Kingdom Public Accounts Committee, accused Google of being “calculated and […] unethical” over its use of the scheme.^[13] Google Chairman Eric Schmidt has claimed that this scheme of Google is “capitalism”,^[14] and that he was “very proud” of it.^[15]

In November 2012, the UK government announced plans to investigate Google, along with Starbucks and Amazon.com, for possible tax avoidance.^[16] In 2015, the UK Government introduced a new law intended to penalize Google’s and other large multinational corporations’ artificial tax avoidance.^[17]

On 20 January 2016, Google announced that it would pay £130m in back taxes to settle the investigation.^[18] However, only 8 days later, it was announced that Google could end up paying more, and UK tax officials were under investigation for what has been termed a “sweetheart deal” for Google.^[19]

Antitrust

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From the 2000s onward, Google and parent company Alphabet Inc. have faced antitrust scrutiny over alleged anti-competitive conduct in violation of competition law in a particular jurisdiction.^[20] Antitrust scrutiny of Google has primarily centered on the company’s dominance in the search engine and digital advertising markets.^[21][22] The company has also been accused of leveraging control of the Android operating system to illegally curb competition.^[23]

Google has also received antitrust scrutiny over its control of the Google Play store and alleged “self-preferencing” at the expense of third-party developers.^[24][25] Additionally, Google’s alleged discrimination against rivals’ advertisements on YouTube has been subject to antitrust litigation.^[26][27] More recently, Google Maps and the Google Automotive Services (GAS) package have become the target of antitrust scrutiny.^[28]

European Union

The European Commission has pursued several competition law cases against Google, namely:^[29]

• Complaint that Google abused its position as a dominant search engine to favor its own services over those of competitors. In particular, Google operated a free comparison shopping website Froogle, which it abandoned in favor of a paid-placement-only site called Google Shopping. Other comparison sites complained of a precipitous drop in web traffic due to changes in the Google search algorithm, and some were driven out of business.^[30] The investigation began in 2010 and concluded in July 2017 with a €2.42 billion fine against the parent company Alphabet, and an order to change its practices within 90 days.^[29]
• Complaint opened in 2015 that the dominance of the Android operating system was abused to make it difficult for competing third-party apps and search engines to be pre-installed on mobile phones. (See European Union vs. Google.)^[31]
• Complaint opened in 2016 that Google abused its market dominance to prevent competing advertising companies to sell ads to websites already using Google AdSense^[32]
• In June 2023, the EU accused Google of abusing its control of the EU market for buying and selling online advertising to undercut rivals.^[33]

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U.S. antitrust issues

In testimony before a U.S. Senate antitrust panel in September 2011, Eric Schmidt, Google’s chairman, said that “the Internet is the ultimate level playing field” where users were “one click away” from competitors.^[34] Nonetheless, Senator Kohl asked Schmidt if Google’s market share constituted a monopoly – a special power dominant – for his company. Schmidt acknowledged that Google’s market share was akin to a monopoly, but noted the complexity of the law.^[35][36]

During the hearing, Mike Lee, Republican of Utah, accused Google of cooking its search results to favor its own services. Schmidt replied, “Senator, I can assure we haven’t cooked anything.”^[34] In testimony before the same Senate panel, Jeffrey Katz and Jeremy Stoppelman, the chief executives from Google’s competitors Nextag and Yelp, said that Google tilts search results in its own favor, limiting choice and stifling competition.^[34]

In October 2012, it was reported that the U.S. Federal Trade Commission staff were preparing a recommendation that the government sue Google on antitrust grounds. The areas of concern include accusations of manipulating the search results to favor Google services such as Google Shopping for buying goods and Google Places for advertising local restaurants and businesses; whether Google’s automated advertising marketplace, AdWords, discriminates against advertisers from competing online commerce services like comparison shopping sites and consumer review Web sites; whether Google’s contracts with smartphone makers and carriers prevent them from removing or modifying Google products, such as its Android operating system or Google Search; and Google’s use of its smartphone patents. A likely outcome of the antitrust investigations is a negotiated settlement where Google would agree not to discriminate in favor of its products over smaller competitors.^[37] Federal Trade Commission ended its investigation during a period which the co-founder of Google, Larry Page, had met with individuals at the White House and the Federal Trade Commission, leading to voluntary changes by Google; since January 2009 to March 2015 employees of Google have met with officials in the White House about 230 times according to The Wall Street Journal.^[38]

In June 2015, Google reached an advertising agreement with Yahoo!, which would have allowed Yahoo! to feature Google advertisements on its web pages. The alliance between the two companies was never completely realized because of antitrust concerns by the U.S. Department of Justice. As a result, Google pulled out of the deal in November 2018.^[39][40][41]

In September 2023 Google’s antitrust trial United States v. Google LLC (2020) began at federal court in Washington, D.C.^[42] in which the DOJ accuses Google of illegally abusing its monopoly power as the largest online search tool.

In January 2023, Google was sued by the federal government and several states for its alleged monopoly over digital advertising technology. The complaint alleged that the company had engaged in “anticompetitive and exclusionary conduct” over the previous 15 years.^[43]

Android

On April 20, 2016, the European Union filed a formal antitrust complaint against Google’s leverage over Android vendors, alleging that the mandatory bundling of the entire suite of proprietary Google software, hindered the ability for competing search providers to be integrated into Android and that barring vendors from producing devices running forks of Android both constituted anti-competitive practices.^[44] In June 2018, the European Commission determined a $5 billion fine for Google regarding the April 2016 complaints.^[45]

In August 2016, Google was fined US$6.75 million by the Russian Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) under similar allegations by Yandex.^[46]

On April 16, 2018, Umar Javeed, Sukarma Thapar, Aaqib Javeed vs. Google LLC & Ors. resulted in the Competition Commission of India ordering a wider probe investigation order against Google Android illegal business practices. The investigations arm of the CCI should complete the wider probe in the case within 150 days, the order said, though such cases at the watchdog typically drag on for years. The CCI also said the role of any Google executive in the alleged abuse of the Android platform should also be examined.^[47]

“Jedi Blue” advertising market monopolization in collusion with Facebook

According to the group of 15 state attorneys general suing Google for antitrust issues,^[48] Google and Facebook entered into a price-fixing agreement termed Jedi Blue to monopolize the online advertising market and prevent the entry of the fairer header bidding method of advertisement sales on any major advertising platform. The agreement consisted of Facebook using the Google-managed system for bidding on and managing online ads in exchange for preferential rates and priority on prime ad placement. This allowed Google to retain its profitable monopoly over online ad exchanges, while saving Facebook billions of dollars on attempts to build competing systems.^[49][50] Over 200 newspapers have sued Google and Facebook to recover losses incurred by the collusion.^[51]

Google admitted that the deal contained, “a provision governing cooperation between Google and Facebook in the event of certain government investigations.”^[52] Google has an internal team called gTrade dedicated to maximizing Google’s advertising profits, reportedly using insider information, price fixing, and leveraging Google’s relative monopoly positions.^[53]

Criticism of search engine

Possible misuse of search results

In 2006/2007, a group of Austrian researchers observed a tendency to misuse the Google engine as a “reality interface”. Ordinary users as well as journalists tend to rely on the first pages of Google Search, assuming that everything not listed there is either not important or simply does not exist. The researchers say that “Google has become the main interface for our whole reality. To be precise: with the Google interface, the user gets the impression that the search results imply a kind of totality. In fact, one only sees a small part of what one could see if one also integrates other research tools”.^[54]

Eric Schmidt, Google’s chief executive, said in a 2007 interview with the Financial Times: “The goal is to enable Google users to be able to ask the question such as ‘What shall I do tomorrow?’ and ‘What job shall I take?'”.^[55] Schmidt reaffirmed this during a 2010 interview with The Wall Street Journal: “I actually think most people don’t want Google to answer their questions; they want Google to tell them what they should be doing next.”^[56]

Numerous companies and individuals, for example, MyTriggers.com^[57] and transport tycoon Sir Brian Souter,^[58] have voiced concerns regarding the fairness of Google’s PageRank and search results after their web sites disappeared from Google’s first-page results. In the case of MyTriggers.com, the Ohio-based shopping comparison search site accused Google of favoring its own services in search results (although the judge eventually ruled that the site failed to show harm to other similar businesses).

Danger of ranking manipulation

PageRank, Google’s page ranking algorithm, can and has been manipulated for political and humorous reasons. To illustrate the view that Google’s search engine could be subjected to manipulation, Google Watch implemented a Google bomb by linking the phrase “out-of-touch executives” to Google’s own page on its corporate management. The attempt was mistakenly attributed to disgruntled Google employees by The New York Times, which later printed a correction.^[59][60]

Daniel Brandt started the Google Watch website and has criticized Google’s PageRank algorithms, saying that they discriminate against new websites and favor established sites.^[61] Chris Beasley, who started Google Watch-Watch, disagrees, saying that Mr. Brandt overstates the amount of discrimination that new websites face and that new websites will naturally rank lower when the ranking is based on a site’s “reputation”. In Google’s world, a site’s reputation is in part determined by how many and which other sites link to it (links from sites with a “better” reputation of their own carry more weight). Since new sites will seldom be as heavily linked as older more established sites, they aren’t as well known, won’t have as much of a reputation, and will receive a lower page ranking.^[62]

In testimony before a U.S. Senate antitrust panel in September 2011, Jeffrey Katz, the chief executive of NexTag, said that Google’s business interests conflict with its engineering commitment to an open-for-all Internet and that: “Google doesn’t play fair. Google rigs its results, biasing in favor of Google Shopping and against competitors like us.” Jeremy Stoppelman, the chief of Yelp, said sites like his have to cooperate with Google because it is the gateway to so many users and “Google then gives its own product preferential treatment.” In earlier testimony at the same hearing, Eric Schmidt, Google’s chairman, said that Google does not “cook the books” to favor its own products and services.^[34]

Portrayals of race and gender

In 2013, Emily McManus, managing editor for TED.com, searched for “english major who taught herself calculus” which prompted Google to ask,  “Did you mean: english major who taught himself calculus?”^[63] Her tweet of the incident gained traction online. One response included a screengrab of a search for “how much is a wnba ticket?” to which the auto-correct feature suggested, “how much is an nba ticket?” Google responded directly to McManus and explained that the phrase “taught himself calculus” appeared about 282,000 times, whereas the phrase “taught herself calculus” appeared about 4,000 times. The company also made note of its efforts to bring more women into STEM fields.^[64]

In 2015, a man tweeted a screengrab showing that Google Photos had tagged two African American people as gorillas.^[65] Google apologized, saying they were “appalled and genuinely sorry” and was “working on longer-term fixes.”^[66] An investigation by WIRED two years later showed that the company’s solution has been to censor searches for “gorilla,” “chimp,” “chimpanzee,” and “monkey.”^[67]

Google Shopping rankings

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In late May 2012, Google announced that they will no longer be maintaining a strict separation between search results and advertising. Google Shopping (formerly known as Froogle) would be replaced with a nearly identical interface, according to the announcement, but only paid advertisers would be listed instead of the neutral aggregate listings shown previously. Furthermore, rankings would be determined primarily by which advertisers place the highest “bid”, though the announcement does not elaborate on this process. The transition was completed in the fall of 2012.^[68]

As a result of this change to Google Shopping, Microsoft, who operates the competing search engine Bing, launched a public information campaign titled Scroogled.^[69] The ad campaign was developed by leading political campaign strategist Mark Penn.^[70]

It is unclear how consumers have reacted to this move. Critics charge that Google has effectively abandoned its “Don’t be evil” motto and that small businesses will be unable to compete against their larger counterparts. There is also concern that consumers who did not see this announcement will be unaware that they are now looking at paid advertisements and that the top results are no longer determined solely based on relevance but instead will be manipulated according to which company paid the most.^[71][72]

Copyright issues

Google Print, Books, and Library

Google’s ambitious plans to scan millions of books and make them readable through its search engine have been criticized for copyright infringement.^[73] The Association for Learned and Professional Society Publishers and the Association of American University Presses both issued statements strongly opposing Google Print, stating that “Google, an enormously successful company, claims a sweeping right to appropriate the property of others for its own commercial use unless it is told, case by case and instance by instance, not to.”^[74]

China Written Works Copyright Society (CWWCS)

In a separate dispute in November 2009, the China Written Works Copyright Society (CWWCS), which protects Chinese writers’ copyrights, accused Google of scanning 18,000 books by 570 Chinese writers without authorization, for its Google Books library.^[75] Toward the end of 2009 representatives of the CWWCS said talks with Google about copyright issues are progressing well, that first they “want Google to admit their mistake and apologize”, then talk about compensation, while at the same time they “don’t want Google to give up China in its digital library project”. On November 20, 2009, Google agreed to provide a list of Chinese books it had scanned, but did not admit having “infringed” copyright laws. In a January 9, 2010 statement the head of Google Books in the Asia-Pacific said “communications with Chinese writers have not been good enough” and apologized to the writers.^[76]

Links and cached data

Kazaa and the Church of Scientology have used the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) to demand that Google remove references to allegedly copyrighted material on their sites.^[77][78]

Search engines such as Google’s that link to sites in “good faith” fall under the safe harbor provisions of the Online Copyright Infringement Liability Limitation Act which is part of DMCA. If they remove links to infringing content after receiving a take down notice, they are not liable. Google removes links to infringing content when requested, provided that supporting evidence is supplied. However, it is sometimes difficult to judge whether or not certain sites are infringing and Google (and other search engines) will sometimes refuse to remove web pages from its index. To complicate matters there have been conflicting rulings from U.S. courts on whether simply linking to infringing content constitutes “contributory infringement” or not.^[79][80]

The New York Times has complained that the caching of their content during a web crawl, a feature utilized by search engines including Google Web Search, violates copyright.^[81] Google observes Internet standard mechanisms for requesting that caching be disabled via the robots.txt file, which is another mechanism that allows operators of a website to request that part or all of their site not be included in search engine results, or via META tags, which allow a content editor to specify whether a document can be crawled or archived, or whether the links on the document can be followed. The U.S. District Court of Nevada ruled that Google’s caches do not constitute copyright infringement under American law in Field v. Google and Parker v. Google.^[82][83]

On February 20, 2017, Google agreed to a voluntary United Kingdom code of practice obligating it to demote links to copyright-infringing content in its search results.^[84][85]

Google Map Maker

Google Map Maker allows user-contributed data to be put into the Google Maps service,^[86] similar to OpenStreetMap it includes concepts such as organising mapping parties and mapping for humanitarian efforts.^[87] It has been criticized for taking work done for free by the general public and claiming commercial ownership of it without returning any contributions back to the commons^[88] as their restrictive license makes it incompatible with most open projects by preventing commercial use or use by competitive services.^[89]

Google Pinyin

Google allegedly used code from Chinese company Sohu‘s Sogou Pinyin for its own input method editor, Google Pinyin.^[90]

Where’s the Fair Use?

On February 16, 2016, internet reviewer Doug Walker (The Nostalgia Critic) posted a video about his concerns related to YouTube’s current copyright-claiming system, which was apparently being tipped in favor of claimants rather than creators despite many of those videos being reported as covered under Fair Use laws. The video featured stories of other YouTubers’ experiences with the copyright system, including fellow Channel Awesome producer Brad Jones, who received a strike on his channel for uploading a film review that took place in a parked car and contained no footage from the film itself. In the video, Walker encouraged others to spread the message using the hashtag #WTFU (Where’s the Fair Use?) on social media.^[91] The hashtag spread among multiple YouTubers, who gave their support to Walker and Channel Awesome and relaying their own stories of issues with YouTube’s copyright system, including Dan Murrell of Screen Junkies,^[92] GradeAUnderA, and Let’s Play producers Mark Fishbach (Markiplier) and Seán William McLoughlin (Jacksepticeye).^[91]

Ten days later, on February 26, 2016, YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki tweeted a link to a post from the YouTube Help Forum and thanked the community for bringing the issue to their attention. The post, written by a member of the YouTube Policy Team named Spencer (no last name was given), stated that they will be working to strengthen communication between creators and YouTube Support and “improvements to increase transparency into the status of monetization claims.”^[93]

Privacy

Google’s March 1, 2012 privacy change enables the company to share data across a wide variety of services.^[95] This includes embedded services in millions of third-party websites using AdSense and Analytics. The policy was widely criticized as creating an environment that discourages Internet innovation by making Internet users more fearful online.^[96]

In December 2009, after privacy concerns were raised, Google’s CEO, Eric Schmidt, declared: “If you have something that you don’t want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn’t be doing it in the first place. If you really need that kind of privacy, the reality is that search engines—including Google—do retain this information for some time and it’s important, for example, that we are all subject in the United States to the Patriot Act and it is possible that all that information could be made available to the authorities.”^[97]

Privacy International has raised concerns regarding the dangers and privacy implications of having a centrally located, widely popular data warehouse of millions of Internet users’ searches, and how under controversial existing U.S. law, Google can be forced to hand over all such information to the U.S. government.^[98] In its 2007 Consultation Report, Privacy International ranked Google as “Hostile to Privacy”, its lowest rating on their report, making Google the only company in the list to receive that ranking.^{[98][99][100]}

At the Techonomy conference in 2010, Eric Schmidt predicted that “true transparency and no anonymity” is the way forward for the internet: “In a world of asynchronous threats it is too dangerous for there not to be some way to identify you. We need a [verified] name service for people. Governments will demand it.” He also said that “If I look at enough of your messaging and your location, and use artificial intelligence, we can predict where you are going to go. Show us 14 photos of yourself and we can identify who you are. You think you don’t have 14 photos of yourself on the internet? You’ve got Facebook photos!”^[101]

In the summer of 2016, Google quietly dropped its ban on personally identifiable info in its DoubleClick ad service. Google’s privacy policy was changed to state it “may” combine web-browsing records obtained through DoubleClick with what the company learns from the use of other Google services. While new users were automatically opted-in, existing users were asked if they wanted to opt-in, and it remains possible to opt-out by going to the Activity controls in the My Account page of a Google account. ProPublica states that “The practical result of the change is that the DoubleClick ads that follow people around on the web may now be customized to them based on your name and other information Google knows about you. It also means that Google could now, if it wished to, build a complete portrait of a user by name, based on everything they write in email, every website they visit and the searches they conduct.” Google contacted ProPublica to correct the fact that it doesn’t “currently” use Gmail keywords to target web ads.^[102]

Google has a US$1.2 billion artificial intelligence and surveillance contract with the Israeli military known as Project Nimbus. According to Google employees, the Israeli military could use this technology to expand its surveillance of Palestinians living in occupied territories.^[103] In what has been described as “retaliation for publicly criticizing the contract,”^[104] Google relocated an outspoken employee overseas. Other Palestinian employees have described an “institutionalised bias” within the company.^[105]

Disha Ravi’s arrest

Google shared environment activist Disha Ravi‘s document on Google Docs with the Delhi police which led to her arrest.^[106]

Censorship

Google has been criticized for various instances of censoring its search results, many times in compliance with the laws of various countries, most notably while it operated in China from January 2006 to March 2010.

Web search

As of December 12, 2012, Google’s SafeSearch feature applies to image searches in the United States. Prior to the change, three SafeSearch settings—”on”, “moderate”, and “off”—were available to users. Following the change, two “Filter explicit results” settings—”on” and “off”—were newly established. The former and new “on” settings are similar and exclude explicit images from search results. The new “off” setting still permits explicit images to appear in search results, but users need to enter more specific search requests, and no direct equivalent of the old “off” setting exists following the change. The change brings image search results into line with Google’s existing settings for web and video search.

Some users have stated that the lack of a completely unfiltered option amounts to “censorship” by Google. A Google spokesperson disagreed, saying that Google is “not censoring any adult content”, and “[wants] to show users exactly what they are looking for—but we aim not to show sexually explicit results unless a user is specifically searching for them.”^[107]

The search term “bisexual” was blacklisted for Instant Search until 2012, when it was removed at the request of the BiNet USA advocacy organization.^[108]

China

Google has been involved in the censorship of certain sites in specific countries and regions. Until March 2010, Google adhered to the Internet censorship policies of China,^[109] enforced by filters colloquially known as “The Great Firewall of China“. Google.cn search results were filtered to remove some information perceived to be harmful to the People’s Republic of China (PRC). Google claimed that some censorship is necessary in order to keep the Chinese government from blocking Google entirely, as occurred in 2002.^[110] The company claims it did not plan to give the government information about users who search for blocked content, and will inform users that content has been restricted if they attempt to search for it.^[111] As of 2009, Google was the only major China-based search engine to explicitly inform the user when search results are blocked or hidden. As of December 2012, Google no longer informs the user of possible censorship for certain queries during search.^[112]

Some Chinese Internet users were critical of Google for assisting the Chinese government in repressing its own citizens, particularly those dissenting against the government and advocating for human rights.^[113] Furthermore, Google had been denounced and called hypocritical by Free Media Movement for agreeing to China’s demands while simultaneously fighting the United States government’s requests for similar information.^[114] Google China had also been condemned by Reporters Without Borders,^[114] Human Rights Watch^[115] and Amnesty International.^[116]

In 2009, China Central Television, Xinhua News Agency, and People’s Daily all reported on Google’s “dissemination of obscene information”, and People’s Daily claimed that “Google’s ‘don’t be evil’ motto becomes a fig leaf”.^[117][118] The Chinese government imposed administrative penalties to Google China, and demanded a reinforcement of censorship.^[119]

In 2010, according to a leaked diplomatic cable from the U.S. Embassy in Beijing, there were reports that the Chinese Politburo directed the intrusion of Google’s computer systems in a worldwide coordinated campaign of computer sabotage and the attempt to access information about Chinese dissidents, carried out by “government operatives, public security experts and Internet outlaws recruited by the Chinese government.”^[120] The report suggested that it was part of an ongoing campaign in which attackers have “broken into American government computers and those of Western allies, the Dalai Lama and American businesses since 2002.”

In response to the attack, Google announced that they were “no longer willing to continue censoring our results on Google.cn, and so over the next few weeks we will be discussing with the Chinese government the basis on which we could operate an unfiltered search engine within the law, if at all.”^[121][122] On March 22, 2010, after talks with Chinese authorities failed to reach an agreement, the company redirected its censor-complying Google China service to its Google Hong Kong service, which is outside the jurisdiction of Chinese censorship laws. From the business perspective, many recognize that the move was likely to affect Google’s profits: “Google is going to pay a heavy price for its move, which is why it deserves praise for refusing to censor its service in China.”^[123] However, at least as of March 23, 2010, “The Great Firewall” continues to censor search results from the Hong Kong portal, www.google.com.hk (as it does with the US portal, www.google.com) for controversial terms such as “Falun gong” and “the June 4 incident” (1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre).^{[124][125][126]}

In 2018, Lhadon Tethong, director of the Tibet Action Institute, said there was a, “crisis of repression unfolding across China and territories it controls.” and that, “it is shocking to know that Google is planning to return to China and has been building a tool that will help the Chinese authorities engage in censorship and surveillance.” She further noted that “Google should be using its incredible wealth, talent, and resources to work with us to find solutions to lift people up and help ease their suffering — not assisting the Chinese government to keep people in chains.”^[127]

Turkey

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Google has been involved in censorship of Google Maps satellite imagery countrywide affecting Android and iOS apps using .com, .tr, and .tld automatically. Desktop users can easily evade this censorship by just removing .tr, and .tld from the URL but the same technique is impossible with smartphone apps.

Russia

Google removed the Smart Voting app from the Play Store before the 2021 Russian legislative election. The application, which had been created by the associates of the imprisoned opposition leader Alexei Navalny, offered voting advice for all voting districts in Russia. It was removed after a meeting with Russian Federation Council officials on 16 September 2021. The Wired reported that several Google employees were threatened with criminal prosecution. Google’s actions were condemned as political censorship by Russian opposition figures.^[128]

In March 2022, Google removed an app, designed to help Russians register protest votes against Putin, from its Play Store.^[129]

AdSense/AdWords

In February 2003, Google stopped showing the advertisements of Oceana, a non-profit organization protesting a major cruise ship operation‘s sewage treatment practices. Google cited its editorial policy at the time, stating “Google does not accept advertising if the ad or site advocates against other individuals, groups, or organizations.”^[130] The policy was later changed.^[131]

In April 2008, Google refused to run ads for a UK Christian group opposed to abortion, explaining that “At this time, Google policy does not permit the advertisement of websites that contain ‘abortion and religion-related content.'” The UK Christian group sued Google for discrimination, and as a result, in September 2008 Google changed its policy and anti-abortion ads were allowed.^[132]

In August 2008, Google closed the AdSense account of a site that carried a negative view of Scientology, the second closing of such a site within 3 months.^[133] It is not certain if the account revocations actually were on the grounds of anti-religious content, however, the cases have raised questions about Google’s terms in regards to AdSense/AdWords. The AdSense policy states that “Sites displaying Google ads may not include […] advocacy against any individual, group, or organization”,^[134] which allows Google to revoke the above-mentioned AdSense accounts.

In May 2011, Google cancelled the AdWord advertisement purchased by a Dublin sex workers’ rights group named “Turn Off the Blue Light” (TOBL),^[135] claiming that it represented an “egregious violation” of company ad policy by “selling adult sexual services”. However, TOBL is a nonprofit campaign for sex worker rights and is not advertising or selling adult sexual services.^[136] In July, after TOBL members held a protest outside Google’s European headquarters in Dublin and wrote to complain, Google relented, reviewed the group’s website, found its content to be advocating a political position, and restored the AdWord advertisement.^[137]

In June 2012, Google rejected the Australian Sex Party‘s ads for AdWords and sponsored search results for the July 12 by-election for the state seat of Melbourne, saying the Party breached its rules which prevent solicitation of donations by a website that did not display tax-exempt status. Although the Sex Party amended its website to display tax deductibility information, Google continued to ban the ads. The ads were reinstated on election eve after it was reported in the media that the Sex Party was considering suing Google. On September 13, 2012, the Party lodged formal complaints against Google with the US Department of Justice and the Australian competition watchdog, accusing Google of “unlawful interference in the conduct of a state election in Victoria with corrupt intent” in violation of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.^[138]

YouTube

YouTube is a video sharing website acquired by Google in 2006. YouTube’s Terms of Service prohibits the posting of videos which violate copyrights or depict pornography, illegal acts, gratuitous violence, or hate speech.^[139] User-posted videos that violate such terms may be removed and replaced with a message stating: “This video is no longer available because its content violated YouTube’s Terms of Service”.

YouTube has been criticized by national governments for failing to police content. For example, videos^[140] have been critically accused for being “left up”, among other videos featuring unwarranted violence or strong ill-intention against people who probably didn’t want this to be published. In 2006, Thailand blocked access to YouTube for users with Thai IP addresses. Thai authorities identified 20 offensive videos and demanded that YouTube remove them before it would unblock any YouTube content.^[141] In 2007 a Turkish judge ordered access to YouTube blocked because of content that insulted Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, which is a crime under Turkish law.^[141] On February 22, 2008, Pakistan Telecommunications Authority (PTA) attempted to block regional access to YouTube following a government order. The attempt inadvertently caused a worldwide YouTube blackout that took 2 hours to correct.^[142] Four days later, PTA lifted the ban after YouTube removed controversial religious comments made by a Dutch Member of Parliament^[143] concerning Islam.^[144]

YouTube has also been criticized by its users for attempting to censor content. In November 2007, the account of Wael Abbas, a well known Egyptian activist who posted videos of police brutality, voting irregularities and anti-government demonstrations, was blocked for three days.^{[145][146][147]}

In February 2008, a video produced by the American Life League that accused a Planned Parenthood television commercial of promoting recreational sex was removed, then reinstated two days later.^[148] In October, a video by political speaker Pat Condell criticizing the British government for officially sanctioning sharia law courts in Britain was removed, then reinstated two days later.^[149] YouTube also pulled a video of columnist Michelle Malkin showing violence by Muslim extremists.^[150] Siva Vaidhyanathan, a professor of Media Studies at the University of Virginia, commented that while, in his opinion, Michelle Malkin disseminates bigotry in her blog, “that does not mean that this particular video is bigoted; it’s not. But because it’s by Malkin, it’s a target.”^[151]

In 2019, YouTube settled for $170 million the FTC and the New York Attorney General for alleged violations of the US Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), which prohibits internet companies from collecting data from kids under 13. YouTube’s enactment of the settlement started in January 2020; this required creators to indicate whether their videos were intended for children, with fines of up to $42,530 per violation of COPPA.^[152] Some features that depend on user data are disabled on videos designated for children, including comments and channel branding watermarks; the ‘donate’ button; cards and end screens; live chat and live chat donations; notifications; and ‘save to playlist’ or ‘watch later’ features. Such channels will also become “ungooglable“.^[152]

In October 2021, YouTube, together with Snapchat and TikTok, participated in a Senate hearing on protecting children online.^[153] The session was prompted by Facebook whistle blower Frances Haugen‘s hearing prior. In the hearing, the social media companies tried to distance themselves from Facebook, to which Senate Commerce consumer protection Chair Richard Blumenthal responded saying “Being different from Facebook is not a defense”, “That bar is in the gutter.”^[154]

Ungoogleable

In 2013, Google successfully prevented the Swedish Language Council from including the Swedish version of the word “ungoogleable” (“ogooglebar ^[sv]“) in its list of new words.^[155] Google objected to its definition (which referred to web searches in general without mentioning Google specifically) and the council was forced to remove it to avoid legal confrontation with Google.^[156] They also accused Google of “trying to control the Swedish language”.^[157]

Other types of censorship

In August 2022, Google closed a person’s account on sharing pictures of his son’s genitals with the doctor, as it was flagged as child abuse by Google’s automated systems.^[158]

Labor practices

Several former Google employees have spoken out about working conditions, practices, and ethics at the company. As the company became more concerned about leaks to the press in 2019, it scaled employee all-hands meetings from weekly to monthly, limiting question topics to business and product strategy.^[159] Google CEO Sundar Pichai told employees in late 2019 that the company is “genuinely struggling with some issues” including transparency and employee trust.^[160]

On 2 December 2020, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) filed a complaint against Google for ‘terminations and intimidation in order to quell workplace activism’. The complaint was filed after a year-long investigation by a terminated employee. He filed a petition in 2019, after that many Google employees carried out internal protests against Google’s work with US Customs and Border Protection.^[161]

Diversity politics

A widely circulated internal memo, written by senior engineer James Damore, Google’s Ideological Echo Chamber, sharply criticized Google’s political biases and employee policies.^[162] Google said the memo was “advancing harmful gender stereotypes” and fired Damore.^[163] David Brooks demanded the resignation of its CEO Sundar Pichai for mishandling the case.^[164][165]

Ads criticizing Pichai and Google for the firing were put up shortly after at various Google locations.^[166] Some have called to boycott Google and its services, with a hashtag #boycottGoogle coming up on Twitter.^[167] A rally against Google alleged partisanship was planned as “March on Google”, but later cancelled due to threats and the Charlottesville mayhem.^[168][169]

Arne Wilberg, an ex-YouTube recruiter, claimed that he was fired in November 2017 when he complained about Google’s new practices in not hiring white and Asian men to YouTube in favor of women and minority applicants. According to the lawsuit, an internal policy document stated that for three months in 2017, YouTube recruiters should only hire diverse candidates.^[170]

In June 2021, Google removed its global lead for diversity strategy and research after being made aware of an antisemitic comment he made in 2007.^[171]

Harassment and discrimination

In February 2016, Amit Singhal, vice president of Google Search for 15 years, left the company following sexual harassment allegations. Google has awarded Singhal $15 million in severance.^[173][174]

On November 1, 2018, approximately 20,000 employees of Google engaged in a worldwide^[175] walkout to protest the way in which the company has handled sexual harassment, and other grievances.^{[176][177][178][179][180]}

In July 2019, Google settled a long-running age discrimination lawsuit brought by 227 over-40 employees and job seekers. Although Google denied it had age discrimination, it agreed to a settlement of $11 million for the plaintiffs, to train its employees not to have age-based bias, and to have its recruiting department focus on age diversity among its engineering employees.^[181][182]

In January 2020, the San Francisco Pride organization voted to ban Google and YouTube from their annual Pride parade due to hate speech on their platforms and retaliation against LBGTQ activists.^[183]

In 2020, HR executive Eileen Naughton joined long-time Chief Legal Counsel David Drummond in stepping down from their positions over a lawsuit naming them and the company founders in accusations of mishandling years of sexual harassment complaints.^[184]

In February 2020, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) opened an investigation into former Google employee Chelsey Glasson‘s allegations of pregnancy discrimination.^[185] Glasson filed a state civil lawsuit while the EEOC investigated, with a trial date set for January 2022.^{[186][187][188]} She settled with the company in February 2022.^[189] She revealed that Google’s legal team obtained therapy notes from her sessions through the company’s Employee assistance program counseling provider, and that the provider dropped her as a client when she filed the lawsuit, which sparked Senator Karen Keiser to introduce a bill in Washington in January 2022 to prohibit private sector providers from disclosing private information typically covered under Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act laws.^{[190][191][192]} Also in January 2022, she criticized the company’s use of non-disclosure agreements (NDAs) in testimony to the Washington House of Representatives for whistleblower protection legislature, which she said intimidated her from speaking out about the discrimination she allegedly witnessed and experienced. In response, Google told Protocol that their confidentiality agreements do not prevent current and former workers from disclosing facts pertaining to harassment or discrimination.^[193] Both laws were passed into legislature in March 2022.^[194][195]

Allegations of union busting

The official settlement agreement that Google signed with the NLRB in 2019 includes this notice to be sent to employees:^[196]

“YOU HAVE THE RIGHT to discuss wages, hours, and working conditions with other employees, the press/media, and other third parties, and WE WILL NOT do anything to interfere with your exercise of those rights.”

Google has been criticized for hiring IRI Consultants, a firm that advertises its accomplishments in helping organizations prevent successful union organizing.^[197] Google Zurich attempted to cancel employee-organized meetings about labor rights in June and October 2019.^[198] Some Google employees and contractors are already unionized, including security guards, some service workers, and analysts and trainers for Google Shopping in Pittsburgh employed by contractor HCL.^[199] In 2021 court documents revealed that between 2018 and 2020 Google ran an anti-union campaign called Project Vivian to “convince [employees] that unions suck”.^[200]

As of December 2019, the National Labor Relations Board is investigating whether several firings were in retaliation for labor organizing-related activities.^[201][202] One of the fired employees was tasked with informing her colleagues about Google policy changes, and created a message informing them that they, “have the right to participate in protected concerted activities,” when they visited the IRI Consultants site.^[203][204]

Xinjiang region

In 2020, the Australian Strategic Policy Institute accused at least 82 major brands, including Google, of being connected to forced Uyghur labor in Xinjiang.^[205]

Other

Non-alignment with US defense

Former Deputy Defense Secretary Robert O. Work in 2018 criticized Google and its employees have stepped into a Moral Hazard for themselves as not continuing Pentagon’s artificial intelligence project, Project Maven,^[206] while helping China’s AI technology that “could be used against the United States in a conflict.” He described Google as hypocritical, given it has opened an AI center in China and “Anything that’s going on in the AI center in China is going to the Chinese government and then will ultimately end up in the hands of the Chinese military.” Work said “I didn’t see any Google employee saying, ‘Hmm, maybe we shouldn’t do that.'” Google’s dealings with China is decrying as unpatriotic.^{[207][208][209]}

Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Joseph Dunford also criticizes Google as “it’s inexplicable” that it continue investing in China, “who uses censorship technology to restrain freedoms and crackdown on people there and has long history of intellectual property and patent theft which hurts U.S. companies,” while simultaneously not renewing further research and development collaborations with the Pentagon. He said, “I’m not sure that people at Google will enjoy a world order that is informed by the norms and standards of Russia or China.” He urges Google to work directly with the U.S. government instead of making controversial inroads into China.^[210] Senator Mark Warner (D-VA) criticized Dragonfly evidences China’s success at “recruit[ing] U.S. companies to their information control efforts” while China exports cyber and censorship infrastructure to countries like Venezuela, Ethiopia, and Pakistan.^[211]

Energy consumption

Google has been criticized for the high amount of energy used to maintain its servers,^[212] but was praised by Greenpeace for the use of renewable sources of energy to run them.^[213] Google has pledged to spend millions of dollars to investigate cheap, clean, renewable energy, and has installed solar panels on the roofs at its Mountain View facilities.^[214][215] In 2010, Google also invested $39 million in wind power.^[216]

Google bus protests

In late 2013, activists in the San Francisco Bay Area began protesting the use of shuttle buses by Google and other tech companies, viewing them as symbols of gentrification and displacement in a city where the rapid growth of the tech sector has driven up housing prices.^[217][218]

Google Video

On August 15, 2007, Google discontinued its Download-to-own/Download-to-rent (DTO/DTR) program.^[219] Some videos previously purchased for ownership under that program were no longer viewable when the embedded Digital Rights Management (DRM) licenses were revoked. Google gave refunds for the full amount spent on videos using “gift certificates” (or “bonuses”) to their customers’ “Google Checkout Account”.^[220][221] After a public uproar, Google issued full refunds to the credit cards of the Google Video users without revoking the gift certificates.

Search within search

For some search results, Google provides a secondary search box that can be used to search within a website identified from the first search. It sparked controversy among some online publishers and retailers. When performing a second search within a specific website, advertisements from competing and rival companies often showed up together with the results from the website being searched. This has the potential to draw users away from the website they were originally searching.^[222] “While the service could help increase traffic, some users could be siphoned away as Google uses the prominence of the brands to sell ads, typically to competing companies.”^[223] In order to combat this controversy, Google has offered to turn off this feature for companies who request to have it removed.^[223]

According to software engineer Ben Lee and Product Manager Jack Menzel, the idea for search within search originated from the way users were searching. It appeared that users were often not finding exactly what they needed while trying to explore within a company site. “Teleporting” on the web, where users need only type part of the name of a website into Google (no need to remember the entire URL) in order to find the correct site, is what helps Google users complete their search. Google took this concept a step further and instead of just “teleporting”, users could type in keywords to search within the website of their choice.^[224]

Naming of Go programming language

Google is criticized for naming their programming language “Go” while there is already an existing programming language called “Go!“.^{[225][226][227]}

Potential security threats

Google’s Street View has been criticized for providing information that could potentially be useful to terrorists. In the United Kingdom during March 2010, Liberal Democrats MP Paul Keetch and unnamed military officers criticized Google for including pictures of the entrance to the British Army Special Air Service (SAS) base, stating that terrorists might use the information to plan attacks. Google responded that it “only takes images from public roads and this is no different to what anyone could see traveling down the road themselves, therefore there is no appreciable security risk.” Military sources stated that “It is highly irresponsible for military bases, especially special forces, to be pictured on the internet. […] The question is, why risk a very serious security breach for the sake of having a picture on a website?”^[228][229] Google was subsequently forced to remove images of the SAS base and other military, security and intelligence installations, admitting that its trained drivers had failed to not take photographs in areas banned under the Official Secrets Act.^[230]

In 2008, Google complied with requests from The Pentagon to remove Street View images of the entrances to military bases.^[231][232]

Politics

Scope of influence

Despite being one of the world’s largest and most influential companies, unlike many other technology companies, Google does not disclose its political spending. In August 2010, New York City Public Advocate Bill de Blasio launched a national campaign urging the corporation to disclose all of its political spending.^[233] In the 2010s, Google spent about $150 million on lobbying, largely related to privacy protections and regulation of monopolies.^[234][235]

Google sponsors several non-profit lobbying groups, such as the Coalition for a Digital Economy (Coadec) in the UK.^[236] Google has sponsored meetings of the conservative Competitive Enterprise Institute who have had speakers including libertarian Republican and Tea Party member, and Senator for Kentucky, Rand Paul.^[237]

Peter Thiel stated that Google had too much influence on the Obama administration, claiming that the company “had more power under Obama than Exxon had under Bush 43“.^[238] There are many revolving door examples between Google and the U.S. government. This includes: 53 revolving door moves between Google and the White House; 22 former White House officials who left the administration to work for Google and 31 Google executives who joined the White House;^[239] 45 Obama for America campaign staffers leaving for Google or Google controlled companies; 38 revolving door moves between Google and government positions involving national security, intelligence or the Department of Defense;^[240] 23 revolving door moves between Google and the State Department; and 18 Pentagon officials moving to Google.

As of 2018, studies found that employees of Alphabet donated largely to support the election of candidates from the Democratic Party.^[241]

In 2023, Alphabet lobbied on antitrust issues and three particular antitrust bills, spending $7.43 million in the first quarter of 2023, lobbying the federal government and more money in the second quarter of 2023, than in any quarter since 2018.^[42]

Climate change

In 2013, Google joined the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC).^[242][243] In September 2014, Google chairman Eric Schmidt announced the company would leave ALEC for lying about climate change and “hurting our children”.^[244]

In 2018, Google started an oil, gas, and energy division, hiring Darryl Willis, a 25-year BP executive who The Wall Street Journal said was intended “to court the oil and gas industry.”^[245] Google Cloud signed an agreement with the French oil company Total S.A., “to jointly develop artificial intelligence solutions for subsurface data analysis in oil and gas exploration and production.”^[246] A partnership with Houston oil investment bank Tudor, Pickering, Holt & Co. was described by the Houston Chronicle as giving Google “a more visible presence in Houston as one of its oldest industries works to cut costs in the wake of the oil bust and remain competitive as electric vehicles and renewable power sources gain market share.”^[247] Other agreements were made with oilfield services companies Baker Hughes and Schlumberger,^[247] and Anadarko Petroleum, to use “artificial intelligence to analyse large volumes of seismic and operational data to find oil, maximise output and increase efficiency,”^[248] and negotiations were started with petroleum giant Saudi Aramco.^[249]

In 2019, Google was criticised for sponsoring a conference that included a session promoting climate change denial. LibertyCon speaker Caleb Rossiter belongs to the CO₂ Coalition, a nonprofit that advocates for more carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.^[250] In November 2019, over 1,000 Google employees demanded that the company commit to zero emissions by 2030 and cancel contracts with fossil fuel companies.^[251]

In February 2022, the NewClimate Institute, a German environmental policy think tank, published a survey evaluating the transparency and progress of the climate strategies and carbon neutrality pledges announced by 25 major companies in the United States that found that Alphabet’s carbon neutrality pledge and climate strategy was unsubstantiated and misleading.^[252][253]

In April 2022, Alphabet, Meta Platforms, Shopify, McKinsey & Company, and Stripe, Inc. announced a $925 million advance market commitment of carbon dioxide removal from companies that are developing the technology over the next 9 years.^[254][255] In January 2023, the American Clean Power Association released an annual industry report that found that 326 corporations had contracted 77.4 gigawatts of wind or solar energy by the end of 2022 and that the three corporate purchasers of the largest volumes of wind and solar energy were Alphabet, Amazon, and Meta Platforms.^[256]

AGreenerGoogle.com

In April 2020, Extinction Rebellion launched “agreenergoogle.com”, a spoof website containing a fake announcement by Google CEO Sundar Pichai claiming that “they would stop funding of organizations that deny or work to block action on climate change, effective immediately”.^[257][258]

YouTube user comments

Most YouTube videos allow users to leave comments, and these have attracted attention for the negative aspects of both their form and content. In 2006, Time praised Web 2.0 for enabling “community and collaboration on a scale never seen before”, and added that YouTube “harnesses the stupidity of crowds as well as its wisdom. Some of the comments on YouTube make you weep for the future of humanity just for the spelling alone, never mind the obscenity and the naked hatred”.^[259] The Guardian in 2009 described users’ comments on YouTube as:

Juvenile, aggressive, misspelled, sexist, homophobic, swinging from raging at the contents of a video to providing a pointlessly detailed description followed by a LOL, YouTube comments are a hotbed of infantile debate and unashamed ignorance – with the occasional burst of wit shining through.^[260]

In September 2008, The Daily Telegraph commented that YouTube was “notorious” for “some of the most confrontational and ill-formed comment exchanges on the internet”, and reported on YouTube Comment Snob, “a new piece of software that blocks rude and illiterate posts”.^[261] The Huffington Post noted in April 2012 that finding comments on YouTube that appear “offensive, stupid and crass” to the “vast majority” of the people is hardly difficult.^[262]

On November 6, 2013, Google implemented a new comment system that requires all YouTube users to use a Google+ account to comment on videos, thereby making the comment system Google+-orientated.^[263] The corporation stated that the change is necessary to personalize comment sections for viewers, eliciting an overwhelmingly negative public response—YouTube co-founder Jawed Karim also expressed disdain by writing on his channel: “why the fuck do I need a Google+ account to comment on a video?”.^[264] The official YouTube announcement received over 62,000 “thumbs down” votes and only just over 4,000 “thumbs up” votes, while an online petition demanding Google+’s removal gained more than 230,000 signatures in just over two months.^[265][266] Writing in the Newsday blog Silicon Island, Chase Melvin noted: “Google+ is nowhere near as popular a social media network as Facebook, but it’s essentially being forced upon millions of YouTube users who don’t want to lose their ability to comment on videos.”^[267] In the same article Melvin adds:

Perhaps user complaints are justified, but the idea of revamping the old system isn’t so bad. Think of the crude, misogynistic and racially-charged mudslinging that has transpired over the last eight years on YouTube without any discernible moderation. Isn’t any attempt to curb unidentified libelers worth a shot? The system is far from perfect, but Google should be lauded for trying to alleviate some of the damage caused by irate YouTubers hiding behind animosity and anonymity.^[267]

On July 27, 2015, Google announced that Google+ would no longer be required for using various services, including YouTube.^[268][269]

Zero-rating

Google has supported net neutrality in the US, while opposing it in India by supporting zero-rating.^[270]

2016 April Fools’ joke

On April 1, 2016, the Mic Drop April Fools’ joke in Gmail caused damage for users who accidentally clicked the button Google installed on that occasion.^[271]

Think Tank meddling

The New York Times reported that Google has pressured the New America think tank which is supported by it, to remove a statement supporting the EU antitrust fine against Google. After Eric Schmidt voiced his displeasure from the statement, the whole research group involved were sidelined in the New America think tank, which gets funding from Google.^[272][273] Consequently, the Open Markets research group went to open their own think tank, which will not get any funding from Google.^[273]

ANS patent controversy

Wide attention in Polish media has resulted from Google’s attempt to patent video compression application of ANS coding, which is now widely used in products of e.g. Apple, Facebook and Google. Its author has helped Google in this adaptation for three years through public forum, but was not included in the patent application. He was supported in fighting this patent by his employer: Jagiellonian University.^{[274][275][276][277][278]}

Spatial data and the city

Google’s huge share of spatial information services, including Google Maps and the Google Places API, has been criticised by activists and academics in terms of the cartographic power it affords Google to map and represent the world’s cities.^[279] In addition, given Google and Alphabet Inc.’s increasing involvement with urban planning, particularly through subsidiaries like Sidewalk Labs,^[280] this has resulted in criticism that Google is exerting an increasing power over urban areas that may not be beneficial to democracy in the long term.^[281][282] This criticism is also related to wider concerns around democracy and Smart Cities that has been directed to a number of other large corporations.^[283][284]

Breach of court order

On 10 December 2018, a New Zealand court ordered that the name of a man accused of murdering British traveller Grace Millane be withheld from the public (a gag order). The next morning, Google named the man in an email it sent people who had subscribed to “what’s trending in New Zealand”.^[285] Lawyers warned that this could compromise the trial, and Justice Minister Andrew Little said that Google was in contempt of court.^[286][287] Google said that it had been unaware of the court order, and that the email had been created by algorithms.

Electronic pop-up books patent

In 2016, Google filed a patent application for interactive pop-up books with electronics.^[288] Jie Qi noticed that the patent resembled work she had shared when she visited Google ATAP in 2014 as a PhD student at the MIT Media Lab; two of the Google employees listed on the application as inventors had also interviewed her during the same visit. After Qi submitted prior art to the USPTO, the application was abandoned.^[289][290]

Project Nightingale

Project Nightingale is a health care data sharing project financed by Google and Ascension, a Catholic health care system, the second largest in the United States. Ascension owns comprehensive health care information on millions of former and current patients who are part of its system. Google and Ascension have been processing this data, in secret, since sometime in 2018, without the knowledge and consent of patients and doctors. The work they are doing appears to comply with federal health care law which includes “robust protections for patient data.”^{[291][292][293]} However, concerns have been voiced whether the transfer really is HIPAA compliant.^[294] The project is Google’s attempt to gain a large scale foot hold into the healthcare industry.^[291]

YouTube: ads forced on all videos, without revenue-share

In 2020, Google-owned YouTube changed its policy so that it could include ads on all videos, regardless of whether the content-creator wanted them or not. Those who were not part of Google’s Partner Program would receive no revenue for this. To join the program, creators must have more than 1,000 subscribers and 4,000 hours of viewed content in the last 12 months.^[295][296]

Abuse of attorney-client privilege

In March 2022, the Department of Justice and 14 state attorneys general accused Google of misusing attorney–client privilege to hide emails from subpoenas using an employee policy called ‘Communicate with Care,’ which instructs employees to carbon copy (CC) Google’s attorneys on emails and flag them as exempt from disclosure. Employees are directed to add a general request for the attorney’s advice even when no legal advice is needed or sought. Often Google’s lawyers will not respond to such requests, which the Justice Department claimed shows they understand and are participating in the evasion.^[297]

Deletion of inactive accounts

In May 2023, Google announced that deletion of inactive user accounts would occur starting in December 2023, citing security reasons, noting that old and unused accounts are more likely to be compromised. Google claimed that “Forgotten or unattended accounts often rely on old or re-used passwords that may have been compromised, haven’t had two factor authentication set up, and receive fewer security checks by the user,” while saying that Google “has no plans to delete YouTube videos”.^{[298][299][300]}

The decision to delete inactive accounts has sparked some criticism and backlash. The cited security rationale behind such decision was ridiculed and was compared to a hypothetical scenario where a bank should be burned down if it is not secure against robbers.^[301] Moreover, the Anonymous hacktivist collective has protested against the decision to delete inactive accounts multiple times, describing them as “harsh” and saying that the decision will “destroy history”.^{[302][303][304]}

See also

• Criticisms of software and websites
• DeGoogle
• Don’t be evil
• Filter bubble
• Google litigation
• Google Search
• Googlization
• High-Tech Employee Antitrust Litigation
• History of Google
• Ireland as a tax haven
• Stochastic parrot
• Surveillance capitalism
• The Creepy Line
• Who Owns the Future?

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Further reading

• Yeo, ShinJoung. (2023) Behind the Search Box: Google and the Global Internet Industry (U of Illinois Press, 2023) ISBN 10:0252087127 online

DOJ Antitrust Honchos Draw Millions From GOOGLE-Backed Groups…

SEE THE TRUTH ABOUT GOOGLE:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=haaxr3Z8MJs&feature=em-uploademail

“Google is a sick corrupt criminal business run by sex trafficking perverts and sociopaths…” Say GOOGLE’S own inside employees, Divorce Court records of Google executives, 70+ State & Federal investigations and major news outlets.

– Google spies on competitors and steals their technology
– Google – Alphabet – YouTube stock is owned by almost all of the California politicians and their families and that is why Google – Alphabet – YouTube is never regulated and always protected by them for their political and profiteering manipulations
– Google runs tens of millions of dollars of defamation attacks against competitors
– Google hides all media and news coverage for competitors of Larry Page’s boyfriend: Elon Musk
– Google lies to the public about what they really do with the public’s data
– Google promotes illegal immigration in order to get cheap labor and control votes
– Google runs VC funding back-lists against start-ups that are competitive
– Google bribes thousands of politicians
– Google is a criminal RICO-violating monopoly
– Google rigs the stock market with Flash-boy, Pump/Dump and Microblast SEC violating computer tricks
– Google pays bribes to politicians in Google and YouTube stock
– Google manipulates who gets to see what web-sites, globally, for competitor black-lists
– Google has a “no poaching” Silicon Valley jobs blacklist
– Google bosses sexually abuse women and young boys
– Google bosses run sex trafficking operations in the Epstein and NXVIUM cults
– Google bosses control the NVCA financing cartel over start-ups
– Google has placed the majority of the corporate staff in at least one White House
– Google controls national elections for anti-competitive purposes
– The company “Polyhop“, in the HOUSE OF CARDS tv show, does all the crimes that Google actually does in reality
– Google’s law firms, like Wilson Sonsini, are corrupt conduits for payola and political conduit-relays
– Google bribes some politicians with revolving door jobs
– Google is primarily responsible for destroying the Bay Area Housing opportunities
– Google runs DDoS attacks on competitors by massively crawling their sites
– Google boss Andy Rubin runs a sex slave farm according to his own family
– Google boss Eric Schmidt was a philandering sex-penthouse owner according to vast news articles
– Google executives hire so many hookers that one of them, Mr. Hayes, was killed by his hooker
– Google executives sexually abuse so many women that the women staff of Google walked out one day
– In the 2009 White House, you could not swing a cat without hitting a Google insider
– Google has paid covert bribes, PAC funds, real estate and search rigging payola to every CA Senator
– Google has paid bribes, through its lobby fronts, to halt FBI, SEC, FEC and FTC investigations of Google crimes
– Google was funded by the CIA, via In-Q-Tel, a so called “501 c3 charity” which was caught with tons of cocaine
– Google gets millions of dollars of taxpayer cash for spying on Americans inside the USA
– Google’s map service was a spy system paid for by taxpayers money that Google now profits off of
– Nancy Pelosi and Dianne Feinstein have promised to “protect” Google because their families profit off Google stocks
– Payment receipts prove that Google and Gawker/Gizmodo exchanged cash and staff for Character Assassination attacks
– Google VC’s and bosses have spent $30M+ rigging the U.S. Patent Office to protect Google and harm Google competitors
– Google bribed it’s lawyer into position as head of the U.S. Patent office in order to have her protect Google
– To rig insider stock trades, Google hides negative Tesla stories and pumps positive Tesla stories on “push days”
– Google and Elon Musk Co-own, co-invest and co-market stocks covertly while running anti-trust schemes
– Google rarely likes, or hires, black employees per federal and news media investigations
– Google hired most of the Washington, DC K Street lobby firms and told them to “do what ever they could”
– The film: “Miss Sloane” depicts only 2% of the illicit lobbying tactics Google employs daily
– Demands for an FTC and FBI raid of Google, for criminal activity, securities law and election felonies have been filed
– Google’s David Drummond had his Woodside, CA Quail Road house bugged revealing sex and financial misdeeds

Google, and it’s Cartel (Alphabet, Youtube, and hundreds of other shell-company facades) are a criminal organization engaged in felony-class crimes. Google’s bosses bribe politicians, regulators and law enforcement officials to hold off prosecution.

At Google: Kent Walker, Andy Rubin, Larry Page, Eric Schmidt, Sergy Brin, Jared Cohen, Yasmin Green, David Drummond and Ian Fette are so enmeshed in sex scandals, election manipulation, and White House bribes that it is hard to comprehend how they can get any legitimate work done.

Between all of the sex cult activity; hookers; rent boys; political bribes to Pelosi, Harris, Newson, and Feinstein; DDoS attacks they run; CIA and NSA stealth deals; privacy harvesting; Scientology-like employee indoctrination; cheap Asian labor; covert Axciom scams and other illicit things they get up to; one just has to wonder.

Some of the largest political bribes in American or European history were paid via billions of dollars of pre-IPO cleantech stock, insider trading, real estate, Google search engine rigging and shadow-banning, sex workers, revolving door jobs, nepotism, state-supported black-listing of competitors and under-the-table cash. Why are these Silicon Valley Oligarchs and their K-Street law firms and lobbyists immune from the law?

U.S. Senators, Agency Heads and Congress are bribed by Google intermediaries with: Billions of dollars of Google, Twitter, Facebook, Tesla, Netflix and Sony Pictures stock and stock warrants which is never reported to the FEC; Billions of dollars of Google, Twitter, Facebook, Tesla, Netflix and Sony Pictures search engine rigging and shadow-banning which is never reported to the FEC; Free rent; Male and female prostitutes; Cars; Dinners; Party Financing; Sports Event Tickets; Political campaign printing and mailing services “Donations”; Secret PAC Financing; Jobs in Corporations in Silicon Valley For The Family Members of Those Who Take Bribes And Those Who Take Bribes; “Consulting” contracts from McKinsey as fronted pay-off gigs; Overpriced “Speaking Engagements” which are really just pay-offs conduited for donors; Private jet rides and use of Government fuel depots (ie: Google handed out NASA jet fuel to staff); Real Estate; Fake mortgages; The use of Cayman, Boca Des Tores, Swiss and related money-laundering accounts; The use of HSBC, Wells Fargo, Goldman Sachs and Deustche Bank money laundering accounts and covert stock accounts; Free spam and bulk mailing services owned by Silicon Valley corporations; Use of high tech law firms such as Perkins Coie, Wilson Sonsini, MoFo, Covington & Burling, etc. to conduit bribes to officials; and other means now documented by us, The FBI, the FTC, The SEC, The FEC and journalists.

Google and Youtube are based on technology and business models that Google and YouTube stole from small inventors who had launched other companies that were up and operating before YouTube or Google even existed as business operations.

Google holds the record for the largest number of corporate sex scandals, abuses and sex trafficking charges.

There are only two kinds of people that work at Google: 1.) Cult indoctrinated naive kids with odd sexual quirks and 2.) divisive managers and executives who seek to exploit those eco-chambered employees for nefarious political and stock market manipulation purposes under the Scientology-like guise of “doing good things”, when, in fact, they are engaged in horrific crimes against society.

Google has hired almost every technology law firm in order to “conflict them out” from ever working to sue Google. If Google rapes you, robs your patents or does anything awful, you won’t be able to find a lawyer to help you.

Most Google executives in control of Google have been indoctrinated by family dynasties to believe that any crime is justified by a bigger cause. Most of those executives are men. The few women in control of departments are figure-heads.

Google bosses attend the same parties and business meetings in which they collude, co-lobby, rig markets and make anti-trust violating plans together.

Google is a private government with more money and power than most smaller nations. Google has more lobbyists bribing more politicians than any other company in America.

Jared Cohen and fashion show-horse Yasmin Green at Google had the job of over-throwing countries in the Middle East. They openly bragged about it. ( https://truthstreammedia.com/2013/06/02/googles-regime-change-agent-jared-cohen/ )

People that work at Google get paid $260,000.00+ per year to lie, spy, manipulate politics, bribe politicians and engage in other crimes. For that kind of money, a person will doing ANYTHING and rationalize it as “part of the higher cause”.

The Project X investigation team is publicly quoted as stating: “…give the same number of lawyers as Google has, with the same level of skills and experience, the same discovery budget, legal expenses budget and expert witness budget, we ABSOLUTELY GUARANTEE that we can put Google staff and investors in federal prison and close Google, in bankruptcy…the Google Cartel has engaged in that much criminal activity…”

“Google is the largest financier of the Obama political campaign and exceeded FEC campaign spending limits by tens of billions of dollars. We can prove this in a jury trial, a Grand Jury hearing and a live Congressional hearing.

Google is the largest staffing source of the Obama Administration. We can prove this in a jury trial, a Grand Jury hearing and a live Congressional hearing.

The largest number of laws and policy decisions, benefiting a single company and it’s investors, went to: Google. We can prove this in a jury trial, a Grand Jury hearing and a live Congressional hearing.

Google, and it’s investor’s are the single largest beneficiary of the Obama Administration. We can prove this in a jury trial, a Grand Jury hearing and a live Congressional hearing.

The Obama Administration only won the White House because Google and Facebook engaged in the largest digital media and search engine manipulation in human history. We can prove this in a jury trial, a Grand Jury hearing and a live Congressional hearing.

Google, and it’s investors, during the Obama Administration, had most of their competitors denied funding, grants, contracts and tax waivers while Google’s investors GOT funding. We can prove this in a jury trial, a Grand Jury hearing and a live Congressional hearing and prove that Google coordinated anti-trust violations with senior Obama Administration White House staff….”

Google operates it’s staffing like a Scientology cult. They  control their employees lives, information, transportation, free time, entertainment and social life. A Google life is a glass-bubble of echo-chamber extremist, hyper-sex-kink, reinforcement.

AAA ASSHOLES OF GOOGLE –  Schmidt new investment firm deepens ties to military…

Google Deletes Videos Accusing It of Election Manipulation from YouTube… Which It Owns (thefreethoughtproject.com)

With All These Big Tech Revelations, This Proves The 2018 Midterms Were Stolen. Devastating Project Veritas report sheds light on Google’s collusion with Democrats. (archive.fo)

GOOGLE EXECS PANIC! Go Into Hiding – Delete Social Media Accounts After James O’Keefe’s Latest Exposé (thegatewaypundit.com)

White House Slams Google As Veritas Censorship Controversy Escalates (bitchute.com)

Google’s NSA Again Exposed For Unauthorized Collection Of Americans’ Phone Records (zerohedge.com)

What exactly is google’s business model besides selling ads no one clicks on and selling people’s data to the NSA? (AskVoat)

So the “russian hackers” meddling in the election was Google all along. Why isn’t this the biggest story in America right now? None of the “trusted” news sources have commented on this at all. (politics)

Google stealthily infuses political agenda into products to prevent Trump reelection, insiders, documents say. (theepochtimes.com)

Google Chrome is Tracking Your Every Move and Storing It, This is How to Stop It (thefreethoughtproject.com)

Google Chrome Has Become Surveillance Software, It’s Time to Switch | (archive.fo)

Project Veritas has been lifting back the veil covering big tech companies and their nefarious activities following the 2016 election. They tried to play left-leaning-but-mostly-fair before the 2016 election, believing in their hearts that Hillary Clinton would be President without their concerted meddling. That didn’t work out for them, so they are trying to prevent “another Trump situation” in 2020 by unabashedly purging, silencing, and censoring conservatives on platforms like Facebook, Google, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram, and YouTube.

(Article by Michio Hasai republished from NOQReport.com)

The answers delivered today before Congress in response to questions by Representative Dan Crenshaw weren’t the standard denials. They were politically manipulative answers designed to make it known they’re doing what we’ve said they were doing all along, but they feel justified in doing it because “hate speech” must be stopped at all costs. Of course, what constitutes hate speech to the social justice warriors in big tech invariably circles around conservative thought. There is no form of hate speech short of physical threats that can be attributed to progressives, at least not in the minds of the people who control big tech. If conservatives are aggressive, they’re delivering hate speech. If progressives are aggressive, they’re just being truthful. That’s what big tech thinks.

This is the worst-case scenario for conservatives. Before, we could call them liars and cheats. Now, we have to fight them on an ideological level, and while we have the truth on our side, they have the technology. They have the eyeballs. They control what people see and don’t see. And as such, they can no longer be trusted to deliver anything even remotely close to fair and balanced. They’re unhinged from reality, but instead of coming back to reality once exposed, they’re building a new reality around their ideologies.

Russia may arrest Google employees for running Google as a manipulative service containing hidden political insertions affecting the human subconscious

• Russian government will now arrest those who try to ‘control minds’ via mass web manipulation
  
• Google was created to push liberal leftist political messages on the subconscious
  
• Research exposes Google as insidious mind-control political shill
• No matter your political persuasion, it is unfair and manipulative for Google to control minds ANY political purposes
  

By Sophie Tanno For Mailonline

A Russian journalist has been accused of ‘controlling minds’ and ‘affecting the human subconscious’ after referencing George Orwell’s 1984 in an article.

Mikhail Romanov, a reporter for the Yakutsk Vecherniy weekly, was writing a story on the alleged torture of an academic.

Police in Russia‘s republic of Sakha charged Romanov after they suspected him of trying to tap into the readers’ sub-conscience, Russian newspaper Kommersant reported.

A Russian journalist has been accused of ‘controlling minds’ and ‘affecting the human subconscious’ after referencing George Orwell’s 1984 (pictured) in an article

Romanov’s editor told the publication: ‘This is a story about how anyone can be squashed by the government machine.

‘It’s also about how Big Brother is watching, reading all comments on online forums.’

This is understood to be the first time a journalist will be tried under Russia’s new legislation punishing those who are perceived to have published information ‘containing hidden insertions affecting the human subconscious. ‘

The case has been forwarded to a Yakutsk city court.

2020 Election; Subliminal Google Messages to Alter Outcome …

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBmByyFkRlo

Google, Facebook, Amazon, Microsoft, and Apple: these companies, the big 5, know almost everything about your life. They know what websites you go to, what y…

MSNBC segment on Hidden and Subliminal Messages Found In …

https://www.videonet111.com/video/msnbc-segment-on-hidden-and-subliminal-messages-found-in-google-1

The Google empire has paid more political bribes to politicians around the globe than any other company on Earth. … MSNBC segment on Hidden and Subliminal Messages …

2020 Election; Subliminal Google Messages to Alter Outcome?

https://www.zachdrewshow.com/episodes/2020-election-subliminal-google-messages-to-alter-outcome/

Google manipulates your searches for you to be subconsciously swayed — let that sink in. We are dealing with that today. 2020 Election: Who Decides? Google meddling with the 2020 election? We will cover it, but also go back in history and explain that this is NOT a new development. Manipulation, deception: It starts often as subliminal.

Subliminal Messaging | Owlcation

https://owlcation.com/social-sciences/Subliminal-Messanging

Subliminal messages are perceived by the unconscious brain. There is not as much subliminal messaging happening in the US now as previously reported, but there could be subtle messages that are received unconsciously. Messaging has probably been used by or political operatives, yet it may not work.

7 Sneaky Subliminal Messages Hidden in Ads | Mental Floss

mentalfloss.com/article/67223/7-sneaky-subliminal-messages-hidden-ads

The FCC fielded the incident, and subsequently condemned such tactics as being “contrary to the public interest”; it’s believed to be the first example of subliminal advertising on television.

17 Subliminal Messages You’d Never Notice in Everyday Life …

https://www.cracked.com/photoplasty_386_17-subliminal-messages-youd-never-notice-in-everyday-life/

17 Subliminal Messages You’d Never Notice in Everyday Life … Twitter. Google Plus. Stumble Upon. … We asked you to show us your inner-Banksy by adding subliminal …

11 Shocking Messages Hidden In Your Childhood Cartoons

https://www.therichest.com/expensive-lifestyle/entertainment/11-shocking-messages-hidden-in-your-childhood-cartoons/

11 Shocking Messages Hidden In Your Childhood Cartoons. The creative animators and screenwriters often insert subliminal messages into their work, and the examples can sometimes be more than unusual. Sexism, political messages, conspiracy theories and hidden inappropriate jokes are found in numerous cartoons that we all grew up with.

What Are Subliminal Messages And Do They Work?

https://allthatsinteresting.com/what-are-subliminal-messages

Subliminal messages, on the other hand, are likewise real and similar to supraliminal messages except that the signal or stimulus is below our threshold of conscious awareness. In other words, you cannot consciously perceive a subliminal message, even if you search for it.

Google likely ‘thoroughly infiltrated’ by Chinese govt., expert warns

  alex stamos, big tech, china, cybersecurity, facebook, google, internet, peter thiel, richard clarke, russia

 (LifeSiteNews) – Tech billionaire Peter Thiel recently called on the federal government to investigate Google for potential infiltration by the Chinese government, and now security experts are saying his concerns are well-founded.

Thiel, one of President Donald Trump’s most high-profile gay supporters and an avowed critic of Silicon Valley, made the remarks at last weekend’s National Conservatism Conference, Axios reports. He called on the FBI and CIA to ask Google, “how many foreign intelligence agencies have infiltrated your Manhattan Project for AI”; “does Google’s senior management consider itself to have been thoroughly infiltrated by Chinese intelligence”; and whether this alleged infiltration is why the company works with China’s military but not America’s.

“I’m not sure quite how to put this, I would like them to be asked [these questions] in a not excessively gentle manner,” Thiel added.

Alex Stamos, a researcher with the Stanford Internet Observatory and former chief security officer at Facebook, said Tuesday it was “completely reasonable” to assume that both the Chinese and Russian governments have, in some form or another, already infiltrated not only Google but every top tech company:

Note that “subverted” is very different than planting professional spies in “The Americans” style. Each of the big companies employs thousands of employees with family members under the control of these countries, and a gov request might be simple and seem borderline reasonable.

— Alex Stamos (@alexstamos) July 16, 2019

I expect that there will be a major combined HUMINT/InfoSec attack against a major tech company revealed in the next couple of years, which will trigger the same awakening that Project Aurora did in 2009.

— Alex Stamos (@alexstamos) July 16, 2019

BTW, I don’t blame the foreign-born employees at all. They are just trying to make a good living doing interesting work. If MSS had *my* Mom I would do whatever they asked.

— Alex Stamos (@alexstamos) July 16, 2019

Stamos predicted that the “next couple of years” would see the revelation of a “major combined HUMINT/InfoSec [human intelligence/information security] attack against a major tech company.”

He’s not the only one who advises that Thiel’s warnings be taken seriously. Richard Clarke, a former counterterrorism and cybersecurity advisor to both Democrat and Republican presidents, told CNBC Wednesday there was cause for concern.

“Here’s what I think is true: Google refused to work for the Pentagon on artificial intelligence,” Clarke said. “If you turn around and you work on artificial intelligence in China, and you don’t really know what they’re going to do with that, I think there’s an issue.”

The internet giant has denied working with the Chinese military, but opened an artificial intelligence center in Shanghai in 2017 despite the Communist regime’s strict speech and internet controls. On Tuesday, Google executive Karan Bhatia testified to the Senate Judiciary Committee that the company has terminated a controversial censored search engine it had been working on for China.

Clarke added that there was no meaningful distinction between Google working with Chinese companies and the Chinese government, given the level of state control in the country.

The specter of foreign influence on the tech industry further intensifies its ongoing controversies regarding political bias and censorship and violations of user privacy. Responding to Thiel’s original comments, President Trump said Tuesday that his administration will “take a look” at the matter.

Google being biased is glaringly obvious even to a retard. Google forcing their employees to support them politically is a human rights violation.

Th old railroad barons a hundred years ago were bad people, but no where near as abusive as google is to the employees. The old railroad tycoons had their supporters too who thought strikers and protesters against their tyranny were awful people.

Silicon Valley just indoctrinated their followers and employees by brainwashing them first like any cult does. “Do no evil” was always a smarmy block of shit in pixels, no different than the purple dinosaur singing “I love you, you love me”. The purple dinosaur never loved you one little bit. It was a lie, and parents had no business being such gullible suckers and allowing their children to be lied to by an actor in a fuzzy suit.

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forcing their employees to support them politically is a human rights violation.

＞Civil and political rights are a class of rights that protect individuals’ freedom from infringement by governments, social organizations, and private individuals. They ensure one’s entitlement to participate in the civil and political life of the society and state without discrimination or repression.

From the first time they censored, shadow-banned people who opposed their way of viewing world, far-left, SJW, leftards has put cornerstone to civil rights movement 2.0, including people who are at the rock bottom and uppermost stairs of oppresion. Clearly, this is infingement of rights by gov and private entities, which has been ignored from by the time it was apparent that such violation is well spread and not a unique case.

Those at silicon valley had no idea that their attempt to have conservative and alike voice removed/deplatformed is someway resemble how “white” and “colored” segregation works; which is no brainer considering that they did not pay any attention to “obscure” details and only remember famous persons who was oppressed at that time.

So, don’t spout only ” Hate speech is Freee speech”. Tell them that when some peers mock center-right personalities by reenacting what happened prior to Civil Rights Act of 1968,throwing liquids to nigger who ignored the sign, isn’t a good joke since political affiliation is covered in protected class in District of Columbia, IA,WV state, which put them as the white fellas and anyone who didn’t entirely agree with them as the blacks in this reenactment.

If anyone reading this is somehow connected to parliement from local council to state, consider ammending the laws to add political affiliation as one of class covered by “(unfounded)hate crimes”. We won’t need to see bike lock attacker and his copycat got sweetheart deals. Share this to Trump, since who doesn’t love for shit and giggles watching leftards kvetching having cognitive dissonance episode explaining why adding another class would hurt other classes that already existed in last statue

Step 1: begin building foundational zeitgeist in pre-K through grade 12.

Step 2: con pupil into taking massive loan in order to obtain degree in advanced doctrine of zeitgeist.

Step 3: place pupil into career path to pay off massive loan.

Step 4: threaten to remove livelihood of career path if pupil questions established zeitgeist.

Regarding Google – Alphabet – Youtube and their Cartel, the issues, that the public and the news media have complained about include: producing child suicides and classroom shootings, racism, misogyny, child mental health threats, domestic spying, data harvesting, sex trafficking, election manipulation, tax evasion, Fusion GPS/Media Matters/ Black Cube hit jobs on competitors, censorship, contrived market monopolization, intellectual property theft, political bribery and many other social crimes!

— An unusually large number of their staff have been arrested for, or charged with, sex crimes, including under-age trafficking.

—- They seem to be an organized crime entity protected by the politicians that they pay bribes to.

—- This entity is one of the largest operators of bribes to public officials. Some of those bribes include billions of dollars of, non-FEC reported, search engine rigging for the political campaigns of the very politicians who are supposed to regulate them.

—- “Google is a sick corrupt criminal business run by sex trafficking perverts and sociopaths…” Say GOOGLE’S own inside employees, Divorce Court records of Google executives, 70+ State and Federal investigations and major news outlets.

—- Google spies on competitors and steals their technology.

— Google – Alphabet – YouTube stock is owned by almost all of the California politicians and their families and that is why Google – Alphabet – YouTube is never regulated and always protected by them for their political and profiteering manipulations –

— Google runs tens of millions of dollars of defamation attacks against competitors

—- Google hides all media and news coverage for competitors of Larry Page’s boyfriend: Elon Musk

—- Google lies to the public about what they really do with the public’s data

—- Google promotes illegal immigration in order to get cheap labor and control votes

—- Google runs VC funding back-lists against start-ups that are competitive

—- Google bribes thousands of politicians

—- Google is a criminal RICO-violating monopoly – Google rigs the stock market with Flash-boy, Pump/Dump and Microblast SEC violating computer tricks –

— Google pays bribes to politicians in Google and YouTube stock

—- Google manipulates who gets to see what web-sites, globally, for competitor black-lists

—- Google has a “no poaching” Silicon Valley jobs blacklist

—- Google bosses sexually abuse women and young boys —- Google bosses run sex trafficking operations in the Epstein and NXVIUM cults

—- Google bosses control the NVCA financing cartel over start-ups –

— Google has placed the majority of the corporate staff in at least one White House

—- Google controls national elections for anti-competitive purposes

—- The company “Polyhop“, in the HOUSE OF CARDS tv show, does all the crimes that Google actually does in reality

—- Google’s law firms, like Wilson Sonsini, are corrupt conduits for payola and political conduit-relays

—- Google bribes some politicians with revolving door jobs

—- Google is primarily responsible for destroying the Bay Area Housing opportunities

—- Google runs DDoS attacks on competitors by massively crawling their sites

—- Google boss Andy Rubin runs a sex slave farm according to his own family –

— Google boss Eric Schmidt was a philandering sex-penthouse owner according to vast news articles

—- Google executives hire so many hookers that one of them, Mr. Hayes, was killed by his hooker

—- Google executives sexually abuse so many women that the women staff of Google walked out one day

—- In the 2009 White House, you could not swing a cat without hitting a Google insider

—- Google has paid covert bribes, PAC funds, real estate and search rigging payola to every CA Senator

—- Google has paid bribes, through its lobby fronts, to halt FBI, SEC, FEC and FTC investigations of Google crimes

—- Google was funded by the CIA, via In-Q-Tel, a so called “501 c3 charity” which was caught with tons of cocaine

—- Google gets millions of dollars of taxpayer cash for spying on Americans inside the USA –

— Google’s map service was a spy system paid for by taxpayers money that Google now profits off of

—- Nancy Pelosi and Dianne Feinstein have promised to “protect” Google because their families profit off Google stocks

—- Payment receipts prove that Google and Gawker/Gizmodo exchanged cash and staff for Character Assassination attacks

—- Google VC’s and bosses have spent $30M+ rigging the U.S. Patent Office to protect Google and harm Google competitors

—- Google bribed it’s lawyer into position as head of the U.S. Patent office in order to have her protect Google – To rig insider stock trades, Google hides negative Tesla stories and pumps positive Tesla stories on “push days” –

— Google and Elon Musk Co-own, co-invest and co-market stocks covertly while running anti-trust schemes

—- Google rarely likes, or hires, black employees per federal and news media investigations

—- Google hired most of the Washington, DC K Street lobby firms and told them to “do what ever they could”

—- The film: “Miss Sloane” depicts only 2% of the illicit lobbying tactics Google employs daily

—- Demands for an FTC and FBI raid of Google, for criminal activity, securities law and election felonies have been filed

—- Google’s David Drummond had his Woodside, CA Quail Road house bugged revealing sex and financial misdeeds

—- Google, and it’s Cartel (Alphabet, Youtube, and hundreds of other shell-company facades) are a criminal organization engaged in felony-class crimes. Google’s bosses bribe politicians, regulators and law enforcement officials to hold off prosecution.

—-At Google: Kent Walker, Andy Rubin, Larry Page, Eric Schmidt, Sergy Brin, Jared Cohen, Yasmin Green, David Drummond and Ian Fette are so enmeshed in sex scandals, election manipulation, and White House bribes that it is hard to comprehend how they can get any legitimate work done.

—- There are hundreds of millions of people in America. The same 120 of them are all involved in operating the same crimes and corruption including: the Sony Pictures corruption; the Afghanistan rare earth mine scandals operated through The Energy Department political slush fund that involves the lithium battery cover-ups (headed by Elon Musk); the Big Tech Brotopia rape, sex trafficking, bribery, exclusionism, racism and misogyny issues they were taught at Stanford University;

—- The Facebook – Meta – Google – Alphabet – Netflix, et al, coordinated news manipulation and domestic spying that they engage in; the hiring of Fusion GPS – Black Cube – Gizmodo/Gawker assassins; the destruction of the housing market by their mass real estate manipulations; patent theft and industrial espionage; and the bribery of almost every politician all the way up to the Oval Office. —- So, while the categories covered in this investigation may seem diverse.

They are connected through an enterprise of criminality and illicit, coordinated operations. We list, by name, the 120 most complicit individuals organizing these crimes, in the evidence documents already submitted to the FBI, FINCEN, DOJ, FTC, SEC, FEC, Congress, InterPol and other authorities. Digital financial tracking of those persons and all of their family members should be assumed to have been under way for some time. Wire-taps and device taps of those persons and all of their family members should be assumed to have been under way for some time. –

— Twitter, Splunk, Google, Facebook, Netflix, YouTube and the Silicon Valley internet Cartel serve you custom manipulated content by automatically creating a covert digital dossier on you reflecting the content consumption preferences they have spied on about you. They continually evolve their dossier on you in order to steer you towards their ideology and their Democrat political party. At these companies, “data mining”, “machine learning” and “AI” means computerized propaganda processing for certain political entities. They began hiring off-shore people ( because they would work so cheap ) but most of those people turned out to be Muslim. This created conflicts with the entire southern part of the United States (which is anti-Muslim) because those workers steered content to pro-Muslim positions.

—- Their spy dossier on you uses abstract content-specific features of the consumed content, such as categories, topic models, and entities, which they automatically extract using natural language processing by comparing every word you use to a giant computer library of what those words might mean about your psychology. So it’s like you are getting “mind-raped” without any penis use. Their assessment of what your words might mean is based on what rich, white male, $200K/year, DNC-promoting programmers think they might mean.

Their computers scale and expand their tools with algorithmic software created by those politically and socially biased frat white boys that wrote the code. It is all biased as hell. They never hire blacks or women in system creation roles so everything these companies do only supports rich white soyboy snowflake type gamer thinking. —- Because their Silicon Valley VC’s told them to spy on billions of people, even for these web giants, it is impractical to store the entire dynamic history of a user’s interaction features. They, thus, out of greed, use algorithms that selectively decay information in order to generalize users and populations. To them, you are just a generalized data point, like cattle on a ranch, to be harvested and fed upon by Silicon Valley.

You can try to sue Google for anti-trust, racketeering and other illicit deeds and Google will hire tens of millions of dollars of lawyers to blockade you from getting to a Jury Trial. The best thing you can do is assist the Federal Government, many State Attorney General’s and citizen’s groups with their lawsuits against The Google Cartel.

Bloomberg, The Wall Street Journal, Stratfor, Wikileaks, FTC and SEC investigators and Kroll Intelligence says that Google runs the largest domestic spying operation in the world; larger than that of even Russia, China, Isreal or Iran. The Google Cartel has set up tho- USA – nds of companies in a spiderweb of surveillance, around the globe, and in space, that knows everything that everyone is thinking, doing or might do; and how to place media and events in front of them to subliminally steer people to do, or think, things that they might not otherwise have thought, done or voted for. Many of these operations were financed by IN-Q-TEL, which is the CIA and the NVCA combined. For example, A Google derivative called ‘JigSaw’ is run by Pro-Isreal, Anti-Arab operatives and steers data to certain interested parties. Larry Page is on multiple Arab secret police “kill lists”, which means they should terminate him if the opportunity arises. Barack Obama had Eric Schmidt in the basement of his campaign HQ on election night, running computers, and has secretly claimed that “Google put him in office”. Most of the key White House staff came from Google. Google claims to ‘not be political’, but it is the most political business Cartel on Earth. Google finances politicians that will do what Google tells them to do. It finances them with billions of dollars of internet manipulation, insider stock favors and by getting every staff member to give max limits to their camapign PACS.

Google and it’s facades: Jigsaw; Alphabet; YouTube; Google LLC (core profit maker); XXVI Holdings Inc.; Google Ireland Holdings (Google LLC subsidiary, that realizes most international profits); Alphabet Capital US LLC; Alphabet Inc.- – USA –  -Parent holding company since 2015. If you own stocks of Google/Alphabet, you own a piece of this company; Calico Life Sciences LLC – – USA –  – Research and development company working on keeping Eric Schmidt alive; Calico LLC (Calico Group LLC)- – USA –  – Holding company of Calico Life Sciences LLC. Company is doing business as Calico Group LLC; Chronicle LLC – – USA –  – Cybersecurity company that creates tools for businesses to sy on other companies; Google LLC – USA –  – Core Google parent company originally named Google Inc. before Google transformed itself into Alphabet. This is where most of the profits come from; Loon Holdings Inc. –  – USA –  Holdings company – Loon LLC – – USA –  – Company is working on providing Internet spying to rural and remote areas using high-altitude balloons; OB Technologies Inc. –  – USA –  Holdings company – OB Technology Holdings Inc.- – USA –  -Holding company; Waymo Holding Inc.- USA –  – Holding company for Waymo; Waymo LLC – USA –  – – Company developed autonomous car technology and currently operates “testing” rides in several US states and already launched Waymo One service in Phoenix. Recently it announced that it will not make its own cars but rather focus on autonomous driving technology to spy on consumers; Wing Aviation LLC – US – Company developed drone delivering technology. It became independent from Project X in 2018. It is currently testing in Australia; X Development Holdings Inc.- USA –  Holding company – X Development LLC – USA –  -Called “Moonshot Factory.” The company says it is working on solving the world’s hardest problems using technology but seems to just be an outlet for Larry Page to steal and copy tecnologies with. Wing, Loom, and Waymo, which are now separate businesses, started as X projects; XXVI Holdings, Inc- USA – Layer between Alphabet Inc. and individual companies of Alphabet. The system is designd to lower regulatory or disclosure requirements, tax evasion, money laundering and for hiding political payola. The name of the company is referring to the Roman numeral of 26, the number of letters in the alphabet.

Google LLC has over 200 direct and indirect subsidiaries in order to limit where lawsuits and federal actions can go. The Mafia uses this same approach. Almost everything Google owns is invovlved in acquiring, and analyzing your personal and business data for the Google surveillance computers. It is almost impossible to find a Google group that does not ‘feed the data beast’. Larry Page and Eric Schmidt believe that no citizen is intelligent enough to live in the world and that they must covertly ‘guide’ populations to their own ideology and “Master Plan”. The rest of the Google Cartel for global domination includes:

DeepMind Technologies Limited GBR Artificial intelligence/Machine Learning

DoubleClick Holding Corp.- USA –  Online advertising company that Google acquired a decade ago. It recently announced that it is rebranding its advertising products, and it will no longer use DoubleClick brand.

Dropcam, Inc.- USA –  Home monitoring. Company is known for its Wi-Fi video streaming cameras. Was acquired by Nest soon after Nest was acquired by Google. This acquisition is often given as an example of how an acquisition can go wrong.

Google Asia Pacific Pte. Ltd SGP Singapore company that channels revenues (royalties) from Asia/Pacific region (through the Netherlands) to Ireland Holdings Unlimited. It has a similar purpose to Google Ireland Limited in Europe.

Google Bermuda Limited BMU Hard to say, where in the company hierarchy this sits. Might be the parent company of Google Bermuda Unlimited

Google Dialer Inc.- USA – Not sure exactly but connected to Google Fiber and Google Voice.

Google Fiber Inc.- USA – Internet Access Provider

Google Fiber North America Inc.- USA –  Internet Access Provider

Google International LLC – USA –  Holdings company for Google’s subsidiaries in individual countries outside the US.

Google Ireland Holdings Unlimited Comp. – IRL – This is a very “famous” Google subsidiary that is incorporated in Ireland but managed and controlled in Bermuda. Google at least up to recently used this subsidiary as part of the “Double Irish” with “Dutch Sandwich” tax optimization scheme that is very common among large international companies. The company serves partially as a holding company for some international businesses but mainly as a holder of Google intellectual property that it further licensed to other Google companies for a fee.

Google Ireland Limited  – IRL –  Google Services Provider for Europe and Switzerland. It books a lot of revenue, but makes very small profits, since it pays a lot to Google Netherlands BV for Google’s intellectual property. Google Netherlands BV than channels this revenue to Google Ireland Unlimited that is incorporated in Ireland but domiciled in Bermuda.

Google Netherlands Holdings B.V.NLD This company is used as a middle layer between Google Ireland Limited and Google Ireland Holdings. This allows Alphabet to pay very low taxes from its European operations thanks to a tax optimization scheme called “Double Irish” with “Dutch Sandwich.” This loophole was very popular among international technology companies and was already fixed for new arrangements.

Google North America Inc.- USA –  Provider of Google FI service (wireless network)

Google Payment Corp.- USA –  Google’s companies that handle money transfers and peer-to-peer transactions. In US payments are processed by Google Payment Corp. (GPC), which has the appropriate license for transmitting money and for peer-to-peer transactions in US.

Google Payment Ireland Limited  – IRL –  Providing Google Payment Services for whole European Union (except UK) as a replacement for

Google Payment UK. UK subsidiary will keep providing services for UK.

Google Voice Inc.- USA – Provider of Google Voice service.

GU Holdings Inc.- USA – Through this company, Google is building subsea cable infrastructure. For example, in 2019, they finished the connection between Los Angeles and Chile.

Nest Labs (Europe) Limited – IRL – “virtual subsidiary” of Nest Labs. Owned by Google Ireland Holdings Unlimited, so not directly under

Nest Labs

Nest Labs Inc.- USA – Company flagship product and company’s first offering before it was acquired by Google was Nest Learning Thermostat. Nest operated independently of Google from 2015 to 2018. However, in 2018, Nest was merged into Google’s home-devices. (Still not sure if it was only organizational merger or also legal merger)

Nest Labs Singapore Pte. Ltd.SGPvirtual “subsidiary” of Nest Labs. Owned by Google Ireland Holdings Unlimited.

Verily Life Sciences LLC – USA –  -Research company developing tools that focus on health data and how they can help with timely decision-making and effective interventions. (formerly Google Live Sciences)

Waze Mobile Ltd.ISRGPS navigation software. Waze describes its app as a community-driven GPS navigation app, which is free to download and use. Waze is owned directly by Google LLC.

YouTube, LLC – USA –  -Youtube is a very successful video sharing and hosting service that Google acquired in 2006. This acquisition became hugely successful for Google. But not everybody was persuaded that the acquisition made sense at the time.

Alphabet Holding LLC is a holding company that is a direct subsidiary of XXVI Holdings, Inc. It is focused mainly on managing Google/Alphabet investments. Both Alphabet investment managing firms CapitalG and GV are housed under this holding. CapitalG and GV invest in other companies, but since those are usually small stakes below 50%, these companies are not part of Alphabet Group. If you want to know more about what companies do they invest in, both CapitalG and GV have a helpful list of their investments on their webpages.

CapitalG 2013 GP LLC – USA –  – – Fund Manager

CapitalG 2013 LP- USA –  Fund

CapitalG 2014 GP LLC – USA –  – Fund Manager

CapitalG 2014 LP- USA –  Fund

CapitalG 2015 GP LLC – USA –  – Fund Manager

CapitalG 2015 LP- USA –  Fund

CapitalG GP II LLC – USA –  – Fund

CapitalG GP LLC – USA –  – Fund Manager

CapitalG II LP- USA –  Fund

CAPITALG INTERNATIONAL LLC – USA –  –

CapitalG LP- USA – Fund

CapitalG Management Company LLC – USA –  – CapitalG Core Management Company

CapitalG Rise LLC – USA –  –

Google Capital 2016 GP, L.L.C.- USA –  Used to be under Google Inc.

Google Capital 2016, L.P.- USA – Fund

Google Capital Management Company, L.L.C.- USA –  Google Capital management company (Google Capital is an old name for CapitalG)

GV 2009 GP, L.L.C.- USA –  Fund manager

GV 2009, L.P.- USA – Fund

GV 2010 GP, L.L.C.- USA –  Fund manager

GV 2010, L.P.- USA –  Fund

GV 2011 GP, L.L.C.- USA – Fund manager

GV 2011, L.P.- USA – Fund

GV 2012 GP, L.L.C.- USA – Fund manager

GV 2012, L.P.- USA – Fund

GV 2013 GP, L.L.C.- USA – Fund manager

GV 2013, L.P.- USA – Fund

GV 2014 GP, L.L.C.- USA – Fund manager

GV 2014, L.P.- USA – Fund

GV 2015 GP, L.L.C.- USA – Fund manager

GV 2015, L.P.- USA – Fund

GV 2016 GP, L.L.C.- USA – Fund manager

GV 2016, L.P.- USA – Fund

GV 2017 GP, L.L.C.- USA – Fund manager

GV 2017 GP, L.P.- USA – Fund manager

GV 2017, L.P.- USA – Fund

GV 2019 GP, L.L.C.- USA – Fund manager

GV 2019 GP, L.P.- USA – Fund manager

GV 2019, L.P.- USA – Fund

GV Management Company, L.L.C.- USA – Core management company for GV

GV UK Management Company LimitedGBRSmall UK based branch of “GV Management” (3 employees in 2018)
Sidewalk Labs LLC – USA –  -Urban innovation organization whose goal is to improve urban infrastructure through technological solutions and tackle challenges of urban growth such as cost of living, efficient transportation, and energy – USA – ge.

Sidewalk Labs Management Company LLC – USA –  -Urban innovation

Before 2015, there was no Alphabet, and Google Inc. was a publicly-traded company that you could directly own by buying its shares. All subsidiaries were subsidiaries to Google Inc. In 2015 Google transformed into Alphabet, where Alphabet Inc became the top parent company that was publicly traded. Google Inc. shareholders became overnight Alphabet Inc shareholders.

In reality, many “Other Bets” businesses still stayed as subsidiaries of Google LLC even after the 2015 transformation, and it was only recently when the whole transformation was finalized. Finally, “Other Bets” companies were moved from outside Google LLC.

The reasons for this complex transformation were described by Google management as an “increase in transparency and oversight,” That would be achieved by putting larger projects at the same level as Goole LLC with their separate management, reporting directly to Alphabet Inc management. The proclaimed increase in transparency was only internal for Google management. Transparency for investors did not increase. Another reason behind the transformation was obviously limiting risk. By separating Google into different companies, each one of them is independent of each other. If someone gets arrested in one company, the others would be protected from it.

Double Irish & Dutch Sandwich is a very popular and publicized arrangement through which mostly US companies were optimizing their taxes from European businesses. It involved two Irish and one Dutch company. Wikipedia has a nice article on both Double Irish and Dutch Sandwich, explaining how it works. In Alphabet/Google case. Companies involved in Double Irish with Dutch Sandwich arrangement are assumed to be:

Google Ireland Holding Unlimited (Irish company with Bermuda domicile)

Google Netherlands Holdings B.V. (Dutch “sandwich” company that serves as an intermediary between two Ireland companies)

Google Ireland Limited (Ireland company that is directly booking revenue from European business, and sends most of the revenue to the Netherlands as royalties for leasing Google’s intellectual property.

Aardvark- USA – Q&A service

Admeld Inc.- USA – Online advertising

AdMob, Inc.- USA – Mobile advertising

Adometry, Inc.- USA – Online advertising attribution

AdScape Media, Inc.

AdScape Media (Canada), Inc.- USA –

CANIn-game advertising

Aegino Unlimited Company – IRL – Company was mentioned in some articles as owner of several other companies operating data centers.

Agawi Inc.- USA – Mobile application streaming

Agnilux Inc.- USA – CPUs design

AIMatter OOOBLRComputer vision

Akwan Information Technologies IncBRASearch engine

allPAY GmbHDEUMobile software developer

Alooma, Inc.ISRCloud migration

Alpental Technologies, Inc.- USA – Wireless Technology

Alphabet Capital Management LLC – USA –  – –

Alphabet Capital US II LLC – USA –  – –

Alphabet Capital US LLC – USA –  – – it was one of only four companies that Google mentioned this one as “significant” in their annual report, which means this is not just an empty shell.

Alphabet Capital, LLC – USA –  -Incorporated in 2018 in Delaware, otherwise no further details about it.

Android Inc.- USA – Mobile operating system

Angstro, Inc.- USA – Social networking service

Anvato Inc.- USA – Cloud-based video services

API.AI- USA – Natural language processing

Apigee Corporation (- USA – )

Apigee Technologies (India) Private Limited (IND)

Apigee Europe Limited (GBR)

Apigee Singapore Pte Ltd (SGP)

Apigee Australia Pty Ltd (AUS)

Apigee Japan K K (JPN)

Apigee Corporation (branch) (ARE)

InsightsOne Systems, Inc. (- USA – )Vario- USA – PI management and predictive analytics

AppBridge Inc.- USA – Google Cloud migration

Appetas- USA – Restaurant website creation

Applied Semantics, Inc.- USA – Online advertising

Appurify Inc.- USA – Automated application testing

Apture, Inc.- USA – Instantaneous search

Autofuss- USA – Art and Design

BandPage, Inc.- USA – Platform for musicians

BeatThatQuote.com LimitedGBRPrice comparison service

bebop Technologies, Inc.- USA – Cloud software

Behavio- USA – Social Prediction

Beijing Gu Xiang Information Technology Co. Limited (Join Venture)CHNInternet Search (Join Venture)

Bitium, Inc.- USA – Single sign-on and identity management

Bitspin GmbHCHETimely App for Android

BlindType IncGRCTouch typing

Bot & Dolly Inc.- USA – Robotic cameras

bruNET Holding AG

bruNET GmbH

bruNET Schweiz GmbHDEU

DEU

DEUMobile software

Bump Technologies- USA – Mobile software

Bump Technologies Inc. (BumpTop)CANDesktop environment

Cask Data Inc.- USA – Big data analytics

Ceann Nua Limited – IRL – Editorial control services

Channel Intelligence, Inc.- USA – Ecommerce services

Charleston Road Registry Inc.- USA – Company serving as top level Domain registrar, since rules required it to be a separate company from Google.

Clever Sense, Inc.- USA – Local recommendations app

Cronologics Inc.- USA – Smart watches

Cwist, Inc. (Workbench )- USA – Online learning provider

DailyDeal GmbHDEUOne deal a day service

Dealmap- USA – One deal a day service

DigisferaPRT360-degree photography

Digital Advertising and Marketing Limited (GBR)

DoubleClick Asia Ltd. (HKG)

DoubleClick Australia Pty Ltd (AUS)

DoubleClick Europe Limited (GBR)

DoubleClick Hispania SL (ESP)

DoubleClick International Asia BV (NLD)

DoubleClick International Holding LLC (- USA – )

DoubleClick International Internet Advertising Limited ( – IRL – )

DoubleClick International TechSolutions Limited ( – IRL – )

DoubleClick Internet Ireland Limited ( – IRL – )

DoubleClick Real Property LLC (- USA – )

DoubleClick Sweden AB (SWE)

DoubleClick Technology Pte. Ltd. (SGP)

DoubleClick TechSolutions (Beijing) Co. Ltd. (CHN)

Falk eSolutions GmbH (CHE)

Falk eSolutions Ltd. (GBR)

Google Affiliate Network Inc. (- USA – )

MessageMedia Europe BV (SWE)

MessageMedia GmbH (DEU)

MessageMedia US/Europe Inc. (- USA – )VariousGroup of subsidiaries that are part of DoubleClick Holding

Directr Inc.- USA – Mobile video app

Divide, Inc.- USA – App splitting phone into two modes, personal & work.

dMarc Broadcasting, Inc.

Scott Concepts, LLC

Scott Studios, LLC – USA –  –

– USA – Radio advertising software

DNNresearch Inc.CANDeep Neural Networks (image recognition)

DocVerse, Inc.- USA – Microsoft Office files sharing site

DoubleClick International Asia Holding NVNLDHolding company

DrawElements OYFINGraphics compatibility testing

eBook Technologies, Inc.- USA – E-book distribution

Emu- USA – IM client

Endoxon AG

Endoxon (Deutchland) GmbH

Endoxon (India) Private Ltd.CHE

DEU

INDMapping

Episodic, Inc.- USA – Online video platform start-up

Eyefluence, Inc.- USA – Eye tracking, virtual reality

Fabric- USA – Mobile app platform

FameBit, LLC – USA –  -Marketing platform connecting online creators and brands

FEEDBURNER

Firebase, Inc.- USA – Application development platform

Flexycore SASFRADroidBooster App for Android

Flutter- USA – Gesture recognition technology

Fly Labs Inc.- USA – Video editing

FortyTwo Inc. (Kifi)- USA – Link management

Fridge- USA – Social groups

Gecko Design Inc.- USA – Mechanical design

Global IP Solutions Holding ABSWEVideo and audio compression

Google (Hong Kong) Limited (HKG)

Google Google Reklamcilik ve Pazarlama (Google Advertising and Marketing Limited) (TUR)

Google Argentina S.R.L. (ARG)

Google Australia Pty Ltd. (AUS)

Google Austria GmbH (AUT)

Google Belgium NV (BEL)

Google Brasil Internet Ltda. (BRA)

Google Canada Corporation (CAN)

Google Czech Republic s.r.o. (CZE)

Google Denmark ApS (DNK)

Google Egypt LLC (EGY)

Google Finland OY (FIN)

Google France SarL (FRA)

Google FZ LLC (ARE)

Google Germany GmbH (DEU)

Google Holdings Pte. Ltd. (SGP)

Google Chile Limitada (CHL)

Google India Private Limited (IND)

Google Information Technology Services Limited Liability Company (HUN)

Google Israel Ltd. (ISR)

Google Italy s.r.l. (ITA)

Google Japan Inc. (JPN)

Google Korea, LLC. (KOR)

Google Limited Liability Company-Google OOO (RUS)

Google Mexico S. de R.L. de C.V. (MEX)

Google New Zealand Ltd. (NZL)

Google Norway AS (NOR)

Google Poland Sp. z o.o. (POL)

Google South Africa (Proprietary) Limited (ZAP)

Google Spain, S.L. (ESP)

Google Sweden AB (SWE)

Google Switzerland GmbH (CHE)

Google UK Limited (GBR)

Google Netherlands B.V. (NLD)VariousGroup of Google’s international subsidiaries that operate in many countries around the world. Majority of them are subsidiaries of Google International LLC

Google Affordable Housing I LLC – USA –  Holdings Company

Google Airwaves Inc.- USA – This google subsidiary took part in FCC auction for the 700mhz spectrum in United States.

Google Bermuda UnlimitedBMUProbably part of “Double Irish” tax scheme. Is this parent company of Google Ireland Holdings?

Google Cable Bermuda LtdBMU -. Is it related to underwater cables Google is building?

Google CFLL Inc.- USA –  –

Google Commerce Limited – IRL –  –

Google Compare Auto Insurance Services Inc.- USA – Auto insurance comparison service

Google Compare Credit Cards Inc.- USA – Credit Card comparison service

Google Compare Mortgages Inc.- USA – Mortgage comparison service

Google Endeavor LLC – USA –  -Internet Commerce

Google Energy LLC – USA –  -Wholesale power trading

Google Engineering UK Holdings LimitedGBRHolding company

Google Europe International Technology Unlimited Company – IRL –  –

Google Fiber California, LLC – USA –  -Fiber Service

Google Information Technology (China) Co., LimitedCHNSoftware development

Google Information Technology (Shanghai) Company LimitedCHNInternet Search

Google Infrastructure Bermuda LimitedBMU –

Google Payment Hong Kong LimitedHKGGoogle Pay Services

Google Payment LithuaniaLTUGoogle Pay Services. Not sure if this company really operates. It was probably on the short list to be counterparty for the whole Europe as a replacement for Google Payment UK. At the end, european business was handed over to Google Payment Ireland.

Google Payment Ltd.GBRThis company used to be the main payment service provider for Europe. This role was handed over to Google Payment Ireland, because of looming Brexit.

Google Payment Singapore Pte. Ltd.SGPGoogle Pay Services

Google Singapore Pte. Ltd.SGPHosting service

Google SJC Bermuda LimitedBMU –

Google Spectrum Investments Inc.- USA –  –

Google Sweden Tecnique ABSWE –

GrandCentral Communication, Inc.- USA – Voice over IP

GraphicsFuzz Ltd.GBRGPU reliability

Green Border Technologies, Inc.- USA – Computer security

Green Parrot Pictures Ltd – IRL – Digital video (quality & speed)

GreenThrottle- USA – Acquihire of android game maker

Halli Labs Private LimitedINDArtificial intelligence

Holomni LLC – USA –  -Robotic wheels

Ignite Logic Inc.- USA – HTML editor

ImageAmerica, Inc.

ImageAmerica Aviation, Inc.- USA –

– USA – Aerial photography

Impermium Inc.- USA – Internet security

Incentive Targeting Inc.- USA – Digital coupons

Industrial Perception Inc.- USA – Robotic arms, computer vision

Instantiations Inc.- USA – Java/Eclipse/AJAX developer tools

Invite Media Inc.- USA – Display advertising

ITA Software Inc.- USA – Travel technology

Jambool, Inc.- USA – “Social Gold” payments

Jetpac Inc.- USA – Artificial intelligence, image recognition

Jibe Mobile Inc.- USA – Rich Communication Services

Kaggle Inc.- USA – Data science competitions

Katango, Inc.- USA – Social circle organization

Keyhole, Inc.- USA – Map analysis

LabPixies Ltd.ISRSocial games & widgets

LaunchKit- USA – Toolkit for mobile app development

Launchpad Toys Inc.- USA – Child-friendly apps

LeapDroid Inc.- USA – Android Emulator

Leonberger Holdings B.V.NLDNot sure about the purpose of this company, except the fact that Leonberger Yoska was “official” Google dog in early 2000.

Leti Link Holdings Limited – IRL – Purpose unknown

Lift Labs Inc- USA – Liftware developer (utensils for people with tremor)

Like.com Inc.- USA – Visual search engine

Limes Audio ABSWEVoice communication

Lumedyne Technologies Incorporated- USA – Developer of MEMs-based, inertial direction sensors.

Makani Power Inc.- USA – Airborne wind turbines

MDialog Corp.CANOnline advertising

Meebo, Inc.- USA – Social networking

Meka Robotics LLC – USA –  -Robots

Metaweb Technologies, Inc.- USA – Semantic search

Moodstocks SASFRAImage recognition

MyEnergy- USA – Online energy – USA – ge monitoring

Neotonic Software Corporation- USA – Customer relationship management

Next New Networks LLC – USA –  -Online video

Nightcorn, Inc.DEUVideo sharing

Nik Software Inc.- USA – Photography

Nimbuz, Inc. (Odysee)- USA – Multimedia sharing and storage

NVF Tech Limited (Redux)

NVF Sub Limited

Redux Management Limited

Redux Laboratories LLPGBR

GBR

GBRAudio

Omnisio, Inc.- USA – Online Video

On2 Technologies, Inc.- USA – Video compression

Orbitera Inc.- USA – Cloud software for cloud marketplaces

Owlchemy Labs LLC – USA –  -Virtual reality studio

PanoramioESPPhoto sharing

PeakStream Inc.- USA – Parallel processing

Peng Ji Information Technology (Shanghai) Co.,Ltd.CHNSoftware development

Phonetic Arts LimitedGBRSpeech synthesis

PieSGPEnterprise communications

PittPatt- USA – Facial recognition system

Pixate Inc.- USA – Mobile software prototyping

Plannr- USA – Schedule management

Plink SearchGBRVisual search engine

Postini, Inc.

Postini Canada Holding Co.

Postini Switzerland GmbH

Postini UK Limited- USA –

GBRCommunications security

PostRank Inc.CANSocial media analytics service

Pulse.io Inc.- USA – Mobile app optimizer

Punch’d Energy Incorporated (Punchd)- USA – Loyalty program

Pushlife Inc.CANService provider

Pyra Labs- USA – Blogger and Blogspot web self-publishing system

Quest Visual Inc.- USA – Augmented reality

Quickoffice, Inc- USA – Mobile office suite

Qwiklabs Inc.- USA – Cloud-based hands-on training platform

Raiden Unlimited Company – IRL – –  holding Google’s data center investments

Rangespan Ltd.GBRE-commerce

reCAPTCHA Inc.- USA – Security/Books digitalization

Red Hot Labs Inc.- USA – App advertising and discovery

Redwood Robotics- USA – Robotic arms

RelativeWave LLC – USA –  -Mobile software prototyping

Relay Media Inc.- USA – AMP converter

reMail LLC – USA –  -Email search

Revolv- USA – Home automation

RightsFlow Inc.- USA – Music rights management

Ruba.com- USA – Travel

SageTV, LLC – USA –  -Media center

SayNow- USA – Voice recognition

SchaftJPNRobotics, humanoid robots

Senosis Health Inc.- USA – Health monitoring

Sigmoid Labs Private Ltd.INDIndian railway tracking

Simplify Media- USA – Music streaming

Skia Inc.- USA – Graphics library

Skillman & Hackett- USA – Virtual reality software

Skybox Imaging, Inc.- USA – Satellite

Skydocks GmbHDEUurpose unknown

SlickLoginISRInternet Security

Slide, Inc.- USA – Social gaming

SocialDeck Inc.CANSocial gaming

SocialGrappleCANSocial media analytics service

Songza- USA – Music streaming

Sparkbuy Inc.- USA – Product search and comparison

‎Sparrow SARLFRAMobile apps

Spidercrunch Limited (spider.io)GBRAnti-click fraud

Sprinks- USA – Online advertising

Stackdriver- USA – Cloud computing

Studio SBV, Inc. (Oyster)- USA – E-book subscriptions

Superpod Inc.- USA – Question and answer app

Supyar Technologies Pvt Ltd. (Quiksee)ISROnline video

SynergyseCANInteractive tutorials

Talaria Technologies Inc.- USA – Cloud computing

TalkBin- USA – Mobile software

Tatter and Company (TNC)KORWeblog software

Tenor Inc.- USA – GIF image search

Teracent Corporation- USA – Online advertising

Terrabella Technologies Limited – IRL – Software development

Terraform Labs Incorporated (Onward)- USA – Customer service and sales workflows automation using a chatbot

Thrive Audio – IRL – Surround sound technology

Timeful Inc.- USA – Mobile software

Tiny Garage Labs Inc. (60db)- USA – Podcasts

Titan Aerospace- USA – High-altitude UAVs

TrendalyzerSWEVisualization Software

TxVia, Inc.- USA – Online payments

Upstartle, LLC – USA –  -Word processor

Urban Engines Inc.- USA – Location-based analytics

Urchin Software Corporation- USA – Web analytics

Velostrata Inc.ISRCloud migration

Vidmaker Inc.- USA – Video editing

ViewdleUKRFacial recognition

VirusTotal.comESPSecurity

Wavii Inc.- USA – Natural Language Processing

Webpass Inc.- USA – Internet service provider

Zave Networks Inc.- USA – Digital coupons

Zetawire Inc.CANMobile payment, NFC

ZipDash Inc.- USA – Traffic analysis

ZynamicsDEUSecurity

Zync Inc. (Zync Render)- USA – Cloud-based visual effects software

Other companies, that are stealth spy operations, are not listed herein.

Corrupt political families conspire to give government funds, contracts, tax waivers, buildings, stock market profits and other insider perks to themselves and their friends. They also conspire to blockade, harm, sabotage and black-list those who compete with them and their friends. These corrupt politicians are never prosecuted for their crimes, and can laugh in the face of those who point out their crimes, because they control the prosecution system. Their Quid Pro Quo criminal corruption is the single largest cause of the taxpayer hatred of Congress.

Shoshana Zuboff’s, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism – Why Twitter, Google, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, Alphabet are the SAME Thing, The SAME SICKO tech elites and the same kinds of social privacy RAPE against citizens!
https://www.contagious.com/news-and-views/shoshana-zuboff-on-the-age-of-surveillance-capitalism

News outlets in our country exhibit the widespread “criminality” and “defamation tactics” of a mostly corrupt news media landscape. The Gawker/Gizmodo/Jalopnik tabloid empire is nothing more than an organized info-crime operation backed up by offshore money-laundering through Russia and the Ukraine.

—- Despite widespread recognition of their deceptive conduct, fools still read these trash publications.

—- There are massive conflicts of interest related to many news media outlets’ conglomerate-ownership as well and industry figures’ financial and familial links to companies, interests, and people they ostensibly report on.

—- ‘Fake news’ isn’t the proper term. It’s the ‘propaganda arm of the Silicon Valley Socialist oligarchs’ In most cases.

—- There are only about 7 men who control all of the news and media in America. That’s right! If you trace the media ownership in America, it all comes down to control by a few crazy old white boys –

— It’s no different than the Chinese Communist Party [and] the propaganda they put out. It’s no different than what the Soviet Union did with the old Pravda media, and, quite frankly, it’s no different than how Putin controls the media today, where 95 percent of his media in Russia is propaganda for the Putin regime. It’s the same thing here with The Washington Post, NY Times, CNN, Hearst publications and all of the media owned by Hollywood and Silicon Valley.

—- Partisan news media should be treated as such. News media outlets such as the CNN, the New York Times, and the Washington Post regularly describe themselves as “politically objective and non-partisan.” In reality they are a propaganda machine for sick Silicon Valley oligarchs.

—- The information institutions are corrupt. For example, Elon Musk is one of the most corrupt men in the world yet the socialist propaganda news media won’t cover any of his crimes and corruptions in their publications because he pays political bribes to keep his dark side hidden in their media.

—- The public should not hurt legitimate news media outlets by engaging with and speaking to corrupt propaganda operations. One should only speak with genuine news media and not reward unethical companies with their time.

—- The following diagrams show what various independent researchers have discovered: The Manipulation Techniques Of Silicon Valley Media Outlets

—- A common tool Google, Facebook and Twitter use to exert control over their victims.

—- We all use manipulation at some point in our lives, whether it be telling a little white lie to get out of a situation, or using flattery to get what we want. For some people, however, using manipulation is a way of life, and their first weapon in an arsenal of techniques to overpower their victims.

—- Who is at risk from the Silicon Valley media predators? Predators use a range of manipulation techniques in order to control their victims, but they often target certain types of personalities. This is because they want to be able to easily manipulate a person, and particular vulnerabilities in a person lend themselves to manipulation. You are more likely to become a victim of a media predator if you have low self-esteem, are naïve, easy to please, lack an assertive native and have no confidence in yourself.

—- Here are 20 of the most common news pundit manipulation techniques:

—- 1. Lying – Predators are constantly lying about practically everything in their life. They do this to wrong-foot their victim and confuse them. Lying is one of the manipulation techniques psychopaths typically use because they have no qualms about it.

—- 2. Not telling the whole story – This is different to lying as a predator will often keep a key part of the story to themselves in order to put their victim at a disadvantage.

—- 3. Frequent mood swings – Never knowing what mood your partner is going to be in when you get home, whether they’ll be happy or angry is a very useful tool to the predator. It keeps their victim off balance and makes them more malleable.

—- 4. Love-bombing and devaluation – Narcissists typically use love bombing as a manipulation tactic, they will go on a charm offensive and get you hooked into thinking this is the best relationship ever, then they’ll drop you like a ton of bricks without explanation.

—- 5. Finger Pointing Punishment – This can include anything from constant nagging, shouting, the silent treatment, physical violence and mental abuse. —- 6. Facts Denial – Often the simplest way a predator will manipulate a person is by denying the thing they are accused of ever happening.

—- 7. Spinning the truth – How many times have politicians twisted the facts to suit themselves? This spinning of the truth is often used to disguise bad behaviour by predators such as sociopaths.

—- 8. Minimising The Urgency – Where a predator will try and play down their actions as not important or damaging and shift the blame onto the victim for overreacting.

—- 9. Plays the victim – The manipulator will themselves take on the role of victim in order to gain sympathy and compassion from those around them. We as humans are naturally drawn to helping people when they are suffering.

—- 10. Targets the victim – When a manipulator accuses the victim of wrongdoing, they are making the victim defend themselves whilst the predator is able to mask their own manipulation techniques. The focus is on the victim, not the accuser.

—- 11. Positive political reinforcement – This includes buying expensive presents, praising them, giving money, constantly apologizing for their behaviour, excessive charm and paying lots of attention.

—- 12. Moves the goal posts – You might think you know where you stand with a person, but if they are constantly moving the goal posts in order to confuse you, then it’s likely you’re dealing with a predator.

—- 13. Diversion – Diverting the conversation away from the perpetrator’s act and moving the conversation onto a different topic is a typical way predators manipulate their victims.

—- 14. Sarcasm – A predator will often be sarcastic about their victim in front of others. They do this to lower the self-esteem of the victim and to show others how powerful they are.

—- 15. Guilt tripping – Someone who manipulates will often guilt trip their victim by saying that they don’t care about them, or that they are selfish or their life is easy. It all helps to keep that person confused and anxious.

—- 16. Flattery – Using charm, praise or flattering the victim is one way of gaining that person’s trust. The victim is naturally happy to receive such compliments but in doing do lowers their guard.

—- 17. Playing the innocent card – A true manipulator will feign utmost shock and confusion at being accused of any wrongdoing. Their surprise is so convincing that the victim may question their own judgement.

—- 18. Over the top aggression – Manipulators often use rage and aggression to shock their victim into submission. The anger is also a tool to shut down any further conversation on the topic as the victim is scared but focused now on controlling the anger, not the original topic.

—- 19. Isolation – It is far easier to keep a person under control if they are isolated from family members and friends who could shed some light and truth on the situation.

—- 20. Feigns political love and empathy – News Predators such as psychopaths and sociopaths do not know how to love someone other than themselves, and cannot feel empathy, but they can pretend to in order to inveigle others into their lives

.—- If you watch out for the above manipulation techniques, you can keep yourself out of a media predator’s clutches.

—- There are hundreds of millions of people in America. The same 120 of them are all involved in operating the same crimes and corruption including: the Sony Pictures corruption; the Afghanistan rare earth mine scandals operated through The Energy Department political slush fund that involves the lithium battery cover-ups (headed by Elon Musk); the Big Tech Brotopia rape, sex trafficking, bribery, exclusionism, racism and misogyny issues they were taught at Stanford University; The Facebook – Meta – Google – Alphabet – Netflix, et al, coordinated news manipulation and domestic spying that they engage in; the hiring of Fusion GPS – Black Cube – Gizmodo/Gawker assassins; the destruction of the housing market by their mass real estate manipulations; patent theft and industrial espionage; and the bribery of almost every politician all the way up to the Oval Office.

—- So, while the categories covered in this investigation may seem diverse. They are connected through an enterprise of criminality and illicit, coordinated operations. We list, by name, the 120 most complicit individuals organizing these crimes, in the evidence documents already submitted to the FBI, FINCEN, DOJ, FTC, SEC, FEC, Congress, InterPol and other authorities. Digital financial tracking of those persons and all of their family members should be assumed to have been under way for some time. Wire-taps and device taps of those persons and all of their family members should be assumed to have been under way for some time.

—- Twitter, Splunk, Google, Facebook, Netflix, YouTube and the Silicon Valley internet Cartel serve you custom manipulated content by automatically creating a covert digital dossier on you reflecting the content consumption preferences they have spied on about you. They continually evolve their dossier on you in order to steer you towards their ideology and their Democrat political party. At these companies, “data mining”, “machine learning” and “AI” means computerized propaganda processing for certain political entities. They began hiring off-shore people ( because they would work so cheap )  but most of those people turned out to be Muslim. This created conflicts with the entire southern part of the United States (which is anti-Muslim) because those workers steered content to pro-Muslim positions.

—- Their spy dossier on you uses abstract content-specific features of the consumed content, such as categories, topic models, and entities, which they automatically extract using natural language processing by comparing every word you use to a giant computer library of what those words might mean about your psychology. So it’s like you are getting “mind-raped” without any penis use.

Their assessment of what your words might mean is based on what rich, white male, $200K/year, DNC-promoting programmers think they might mean. Their computers scale and expand their tools with algorithmic software created by those politically and socially biased frat white boys that wrote the code. It is all biased as hell. They never hire blacks or women in system creation roles so everything these companies do only supports rich white soyboy snowflake type gamer thinking.

—- Because their Silicon Valley VC’s told them to spy on billions of people, even for these web giants, it is impractical to store the entire dynamic history of a user’s interaction features. They, thus, out of greed, use algorithms that selectively decay information in order to generalize users and populations. To them, you are just a generalized data point, like cattle on a ranch, to be harvested and fed upon by Silicon Valley.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/02/11/emails-show-national-archives-secretly-coordinated-bidens-lawyers-retrieve-classified-docs-penn-biden-center-before-midterm-elections/

US State Department Funding Secret ‘Disinformation’ Crusade To Blacklist Media

BY TYLER DURDEN

The US Department of State has been funding a “disinformation” tracking group through its Global Engagement Center (GEC), which reportedly works at demonetizing sites it accuses of disseminating “disinformation,” – which are overwhelmingly conservative news outlets, the Washington Examiner reports.

The Global Disinformation Index, a British organization with two affiliated U.S. nonprofit groups, is feeding blacklists to ad companies with the intent of defunding and shutting down websites peddling alleged “disinformation,” the Washington Examiner reported. This same “disinformation” group has received $330,000 from two State Department-backed entities linked to the highest levels of government, raising concerns from First Amendment lawyers and members of Congress.

GDI through its website maintains a “dynamic exclusion list” of the worst offenders of disinformation online, which it then distributes to ad tech companies – such as Microsoft’s Xandr – in order to try and “defund and downrank these worst offenders,” and deprive said sites of ad revenue.

According to The American Conserviative executive director Emily Doak, “They might consider TAC a ‘high-risk’ publication because we have consistently taken on the bipartisan establishment’s sacred cows, whether it’s the war in Iraq, nation-building in Afghanistan, or the harm done by free trade and open borders — and we’ve been proven right time and time again,” adding “They know they can’t say we’re wrong, only that we’re biased and ‘high-risk,’ so we will wear that designation as a badge of honor.”

In 2018, the GEC began funding Disinfo Cloud, a State Department spokesperson told the Washington Examiner. The GEC awarded roughly $300,000 to an investment group called Park Advisers, which fights “disinformation, terrorism, violent extremism, hate speech” to manage Disinfo Cloud, the spokesperson said.

Park Advisers implemented Disinfo Cloud “to provide the U.S. government and its partners with a database of the tools and technologies available to help push back against foreign propaganda and disinformation,” according to its website, which links to Disinfo Cloud’s former landing page that has since been pulled off the internet. -Washington Examiner

One State Department-funded group which supports GDI is the nonprofit National Endowment for Democracy, which receives nearly 100% of its funding from congressional appropriations ($300 million in 2021), which critics have argued is essentially giving money to a government grantmaking body despite its status as a private entity.

In 2020, $230,000 went from the NED to the AN foundation, a GDI group that also goes by the Disinformation Index Foundation. The grant was to “deepen understanding of the challenges to information integrity in the digital space” in Asia, Africa and other foreign countries, and to “assess disinformation risks of local online media ecosystems.”

The Global Engagement Center notably appeared in the Twitter Files reported by @mtaibbi https://t.co/M3LM3PkkrX

— Gabe Kaminsky (@gekaminsky) February 10, 2023
Meanwhile in September 2021, the GEC hosted the US-Paris Tech Challenge – an event which sought to “advance the development of promising and innovative technologies against disinformation and propaganda” in Europe and the UK. The event was a “collaboration with U.S. Embassy Paris, the Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Research Lab (DFRLab), the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)” and several other organizations.

Civil rights experts are appalled.

“Any outfit like that engaged in censorship shouldn’t have any contact with the government because they’re tainted by association with a group that is doing something fundamentally against American values,” said Jeffrey Clark, former acting head of the DOJ’s Civil Rights Division in a statement to the Examiner. “The government or any private entity shouldn’t be involved with this entity that’s engaged in conduct that is either legally questionable or at least morally questionable.”

In addition to Park Advisers and Disinfo Cloud, partners for the Paris challenge included the Atlantic Council, a major think tank, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, and others, according to the State Department.

— Gabe Kaminsky (@gekaminsky) February 10, 2023
Meanwhile, Rep. Michael McCaul (R-TX) said: “Last year, under tremendous bipartisan pressure, I refused to reauthorize the Global Engagement Center because such a step seemed premature,” adding “The most recent allegations, if verified, confirm the need for a strict accounting of all U.S. taxpayer funds going to the GEC.”

Rep. Jim Banks (R-IN) says that the Biden administration is “knee deep” in left-leaning efforts to “crack down” on speech – telling the Examiner: “House Republicans will be hauling these bad actors before Congress, and I absolutely support legislation to ban federal funding of anti-free speech groups.”

Match.com, OK Cupid and corporate dating sites exist to harvest your data for political campaigns

—- They spy on you to manipulate your politics, ideology and intentions and to report you to bill collectors, tax colletors, investigators and political parties. –

— When you hear” “BIG DATA”, “AI”, “DATING MINING” …RUN: They are all processes that rape the public and manipulate elections

—– 89% of Silicon Valley’s money comes from data mining you.

—- Google, Netflix, YouTube, Facebook, etc. exist to mass manipulate populations and run stock market scams for their sociopath owners. From INSIDE Google, our team saw Google manipulate the entire internet to hype up Larry Page’s “boyfriend’: Elon Musk and Tesla, which Google execs owned a portion of, while sabotaging Tesla’s competitors.

—- Google illicitly and illegally timed these manipulations with stock market pump-and-dump efforts to exploit insider trading. That is a felony violation of RICO, Antitrust and other laws. Every single thing that Google does is contrived to harm a competitor, a politician, an employee whistle-blower or some other business adversary.

—- Silicon Valley has, AND LEAKS, everybody’s abortion records

—– There are no “bugs”, “operator errors”, “server anomalies” or other media “accidents” at Google. Everything Google does is contrived, at a psychological warfare kind of level, to change a social perception.Google must show its software to FBI, SEC, FTC and our search engine optimisation experts to prove that they did not engage in these crimes. The fact is: We can prove they did the crimes and FBI experts can help us prove it! Google is known as the “Nazi’s of the Internet”. –

—- In a case unfolding in Britain over whether Google wrongly demoted price comparison rival Foundem from its search results in favour of paid-for adverts, Google must now decide which it values more: the algorithms that rank its search results, or its stance that manually fiddling with those results to promote its own paid-for products over rivals’ sites doesn’t break competition laws. –

— The integrity of Google’s ranking processes relies upon all webmasters or website owners having the same degree of access to information about Google’s ranking… This will no longer be the case if information of this kind is made available to some individuals offering commercial services to assist companies to improve their Search ranking. –

— Google is a criminal operation. It’s executives have been publicly exposed as participants in horrific sex scandals, money laundering, political bribery and racism. It is time for the bought and paid shill politicians to stop protecting them! – Google spies on competitors and steals their technology

– Google runs tens of millions of dollars of defamation attacks against competitors – Google hides all media and news coverage for competitors of Larry Page’s boyfriend: Elon Musk – Google lies to the public about what they really do with the public’s data

—- Google promotes illegal immigration in order to get cheap labor and control votes – Google runs VC funding back-lists against start-ups that are competitive – Google bribes thousands of politicians – Google is a criminal RICO-violating monopoly – Google rigs the stock market with Flash-boy, Pump/Dump and Microblast SEC violating computer tricks – Google pays bribes to politicians in Google and YouTube stock – Google manipulates who gets to see what web-sites, globally, for competitor black-lists – Google has a “no poaching” Silicon Valley jobs blacklist –

— Google bosses sexually abuse women and young boys – Google bosses run sex trafficking operations in the Epstein and NXVIUM cults – Google bosses control the NVCA financing cartel over start-ups – Google has placed the majority of the corporate staff in at least one White House – Google controls national elections for anti-competitive purposes – The company “Polyhop”, in the HOUSE OF CARDS tv show, does all the crimes that Google actually does in reality – Google’s law firms, like Wilson Sonsini, are corrupt conduits for payola and political conduit-relays —- Google bribes some politicians with revolving door jobs – Google is primarily responsible for destroying the Bay Area Housing opportunities

– Google runs DDoS attacks on competitors by massively crawling their sites

– Google boss Andy Rubin runs a sex slave farm according to his own family – Google boss Eric Schmidt was a philandering sex-penthouse owner according to vast news articles – Google executives hire so many hookers that one of them, Mr. Hayes, was killed by his hooker

—- Google executives sexually abuse so many women that the women staff of Google walked out one day – In the 2009 White House, you could not swing a cat without hitting a Google insider – Google has paid covert bribes, PAC funds, real estate and search rigging payola to every CA Senator – Google has paid bribes, through its lobby fronts, to halt FBI, SEC, FEC and FTC investigations of Google crimes – Google was funded by the CIA, via In-Q-Tel, a so called “501 c3 charity” which was caught with tons of cocaine

– Google gets millions of dollars of taxpayer cash for spying on Americans inside the USA – Google’s map service was a spy system paid for by taxpayers money that Google now profits off of —- Nancy Pelosi and Dianne Feinstein have promised to “protect” Google because their families profit off Google stocks – Payment receipts prove that Google and Gawker/Gizmodo exchanged cash and staff for Character Assassination attacks – Google VC’s and bosses have spent $30M+ rigging the U.S. Patent Office to protect Google and harm Google competitors –

— Google bribed it’s lawyer into position as head of the U.S. Patent office in order to have her protect Google – To rig insider stock trades, Google hides negative Tesla stories and pumps positive Tesla stories on “push days” – Google and Elon Musk Co-own, co-invest and co-market stocks covertly while running anti-trust schemes – Google rarely likes, or hires, black employees per federal and news media investigations – Google hired most of the Washington, DC K Street lobby firms and told them to “do what ever they could” – The film: “Miss Sloane” depicts only 2% of the illicit lobbying tactics Google employs daily

—- Demands for an FTC and FBI raid of Google, for criminal activity, securities law and election felonies have been filed – Google’s David Drummond had his Woodside, CA Quail Road house bugged revealing sex and financial misdeeds – Google, and it’s Cartel (Alphabet, Youtube, and hundreds of other shell-company facades) are a criminal organization engaged in felony-class crimes. Google’s bosses bribe politicians, regulators and law enforcement officials to hold off prosecution.

—- At Google: Kent Walker, Andy Rubin, Larry Page, Eric Schmidt, Sergy Brin, Jared Cohen, Yasmin Green, David Drummond and Ian Fette are so enmeshed in sex scandals, election manipulation, and White House bribes that it is hard to comprehend how they can get any legitimate work done. Google executives came from most of the fraternity houses involved in the college rape scandals. —-  Google sells covert character assassination services to politicians and fellow oligarchs. Youtube/Google/Alphabet/Deep State are all the same entity. They conspire to hide news about their corruption and they control most of the internet.

—- There are hundreds of millions of people in America. The same 120 of them are all involved in operating the same crimes and corruption including: the Sony Pictures corruption; the Afghanistan rare earth mine scandals operated through The Energy Department political slush fund that involves the lithium battery cover-ups (headed by Elon Musk); the Big Tech Brotopia rape, sex trafficking, bribery, exclusionism, racism and misogyny issues they were taught at Stanford University; The Facebook – Meta – Google – Alphabet – Netflix, et al, coordinated news manipulation and domestic spying that they engage in; the hiring of Fusion GPS – Black Cube – Gizmodo/Gawker assassins; the destruction of the housing market by their mass real estate manipulations; patent theft and industrial espionage; and the bribery of almost every politician all the way up to the Oval Office. —- So, while the categories covered in this investigation may seem diverse.

They are connected through an enterprise of criminality and illicit, coordinated operations. We list, by name, the 120 most complicit individuals organizing these crimes, in the evidence documents already submitted to the FBI, FINCEN, DOJ, FTC, SEC, FEC, Congress, InterPol and other authorities. Digital financial tracking of those persons and all of their family members should be assumed to have been under way for some time. Wire-taps and device taps of those persons and all of their family members should be assumed to have been under way for some time.

—- Twitter, Splunk, Google, Facebook, Netflix, YouTube and the Silicon Valley internet Cartel serve you custom manipulated content by automatically creating a covert digital dossier on you reflecting the content consumption preferences they have spied on about you. They continually evolve their dossier on you in order to steer you towards their ideology and their Democrat political party. At these companies, “data mining”, “machine learning” and “AI” means computerized propaganda processing for certain political entities. They began hiring off-shore people (because they would work so cheap) but most of those people turned out to be Muslim. This created conflicts with the entire southern part of the United States (which is anti-Muslim) because those workers steered content to pro-Muslim positions.

—- Their spy dossier on you uses abstract content-specific features of the consumed content, such as categories, topic models, and entities, which they automatically extract using natural language processing by comparing every word you use to a giant computer library of what those words might mean about your psychology. So it’s like you are getting “mind-raped” without any penis use.

Their assessment of what your words might mean is based on what rich, white male, $200K/year, DNC-promoting programmers think they might mean. Their computers scale and expand their tools with algorithmic software created by those politically and socially biased frat white boys that wrote the code. It is all biased as hell. They never hire blacks or women in system creation roles so everything these companies do only supports rich white soyboy snowflake type gamer thinking. –

— Because their Silicon Valley VC’s told them to spy on billions of people, even for these web giants, it is impractical to store the entire dynamic history of a user’s interaction features. They, thus, out of greed, use algorithms that selectively decay information in order to generalize users and populations. To them, you are just a generalized data point, like cattle on a ranch, to be harvested and fed upon by Silicon Valley.

Facebook Is Abusing Your Sensitive Medical Information from Hospital Websites

Experts say some hospitals’ use of an ad tracking tool may violate a federal law protecting health information By Todd Feathers, Simon Fondrie-Teitler, Angie Waller, and Surya Matt

 

A tracking tool installed on many hospitals’ websites has been collecting patients’ sensitive health information—including details about their medical conditions, prescriptions, and doctor’s appointments—and sending it to Facebook.

The Markup tested the websites of Newsweek’s top 100 hospitals in America. On 33 of them we found the tracker, called the Meta Pixel, sending Facebook a packet of data whenever a person clicked a button to schedule a doctor’s appointment. The data is connected to an IP address—an identifier that’s like a computer’s mailing address and can generally be linked to a specific individual or household—creating an intimate receipt of the appointment request for Facebook.

On the website of University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center, for example, clicking the “Schedule Online” button on a doctor’s page prompted the Meta Pixel to send Facebook the text of the button, the doctor’s name, and the search term we used to find her: “pregnancy termination.”

Clicking the “Schedule Online Now” button for a doctor on the website of Froedtert Hospital, in Wisconsin, prompted the Meta Pixel to send Facebook the text of the button, the doctor’s name, and the condition we selected from a dropdown menu: “Alzheimer’s.”

The Markup also found the Meta Pixel installed inside the password-protected patient portals of seven health systems. On five of those systems’ pages, we documented the pixel sending Facebook data about real patients who volunteered to participate in the Pixel Hunt project, a collaboration between The Markup and Mozilla Rally. The project is a crowd-sourced undertaking in which anyone can install Mozilla’s Rally browser add-on in order to send The Markup data on the Meta Pixel as it appears on sites that they visit. The data sent to hospitals included the names of patients’ medications, descriptions of their allergic reactions, and details about their upcoming doctor’s appointments.

Former regulators, health data security experts, and privacy advocates who reviewed The Markup’s findings said the hospitals in question may have violated the federal Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). The law prohibits covered entities like hospitals from sharing personally identifiable health information with third parties like Facebook, except when an individual has expressly consented in advance or under certain contracts.

Neither the hospitals nor Meta said they had such contracts in place, and The Markup found no evidence that the hospitals or Meta were otherwise obtaining patients’ express consent.

“I am deeply troubled by what [the hospitals] are doing with the capture of their data and the sharing of it,” said David Holtzman, a health privacy consultant who previously served as a senior privacy adviser in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights, which enforces HIPAA. “I cannot say [sharing this data] is for certain a HIPAA violation. It is quite likely a HIPAA violation.”

University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center spokesperson George Stamatis did not respond to The Markup’s questions but said in a brief statement that the hospital “comport[s] with all applicable federal and state laws and regulatory requirements.”

After reviewing The Markup’s findings, Froedtert Hospital removed the Meta Pixel from its website “out of an abundance of caution,” Steve Schooff, a spokesperson for the hospital, wrote in a statement.

This is an extreme example of exactly how far the tentacles of Big Tech reach into what we think of as protected data space.

Nicholas Price, University of Michigan

As of June 15, six other hospitals had also removed pixels from their appointment booking pages and at least five of the seven health systems that had Meta Pixels installed in their patient portals had removed those pixels.

The 33 hospitals The Markup found sending patient appointment details to Facebook collectively reported more than 26 million patient admissions and outpatient visits in 2020, according to the most recent data available from the American Hospital Association. Our investigation was limited to just over 100 hospitals; the data sharing likely affects many more patients and institutions than we identified.

Facebook itself is not subject to HIPAA, but the experts interviewed for this story expressed concerns about how the advertising giant might use the personal health data it’s collecting for its own profit.

“This is an extreme example of exactly how far the tentacles of Big Tech reach into what we think of as a protected data space,” said Nicholson Price, a University of Michigan law professor who studies big data and health care. “I think this is creepy, problematic, and potentially illegal” from the hospitals’ point of view.

The Markup was unable to determine whether Facebook used the data to target advertisements, train its recommendation algorithms, or profit in other ways.

Facebook’s parent company, Meta, did not respond to questions. Instead, spokesperson Dale Hogan sent a brief email paraphrasing the company’s sensitive health data policy.

“If Meta’s signals filtering systems detect that a business is sending potentially sensitive health data from their app or website through their use of Meta Business Tools, which in some cases can happen in error, that potentially sensitive data will be removed before it can be stored in our ads systems,” Hogan wrote.

Meta did not respond to follow-up questions, but Hogan appears to be referencing a sensitive health information filtering system that the company launched in July 2020 in response to a Wall Street Journal article and New York Department of Financial Services investigation. Meta told the investigators that the filtering system was “not yet operating with complete accuracy,” according to the department’s February 2021 final report.

The Markup was unable to confirm whether any of the data referenced in this story was in fact removed before being stored by Meta. However, a recent joint investigation with Reveal found that Meta’s sensitive health information filtering system didn’t block information about appointments a reporter requested with crisis pregnancy centers.

Internally, Facebook employees have been blunt about how well—or not so well—the company generally protects sensitive data.

“We do not have an adequate level of control and explainability over how our systems use data, and thus we can’t confidently make controlled policy changes or external commitments such as ‘we will not use X data for Y purpose.’ ” Facebook engineers on the ad and business product team wrote in a 2021 privacy overview that was leaked to Vice.

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“Almost Any Patient Would Be Shocked”

The Meta Pixel is a snippet of code that tracks users as they navigate through a website, logging which pages they visit, which buttons they click, and certain information they enter into forms. It’s one of the most prolific tracking tools on the internet—present on more than 30 percent of the most popular sites on the web, according to The Markup’s analysis.

In exchange for installing its pixel, Meta provides website owners analytics about the ads they’ve placed on Facebook and Instagram and tools to target people who’ve visited their website.

The Meta Pixel sends information to Facebook via scripts running in a person’s internet browser, so each data packet comes labeled with an IP address that can be used in combination with other data to identify an individual or household.

HIPAA lists IP addresses as one of the 18 identifiers that, when linked to information about a person’s health conditions, care, or payment, can qualify the data as protected health information. Unlike anonymized or aggregate health data, hospitals can’t share protected health information with third parties except under the strict terms of business associate agreements that restrict how the data can be used.

In addition, if a patient is logged in to Facebook when they visit a hospital’s website where a Meta Pixel is installed, some browsers will attach third-party cookies—another tracking mechanism—that allow Meta to link pixel data to specific Facebook accounts.

And in several cases we found—using both dummy accounts created by our reporters and data from Mozilla Rally volunteers—that the Meta Pixel made it even easier to identify patients.

When The Markup clicked the “Finish Booking” button on a Scripps Memorial Hospital doctor’s page, the pixel sent Facebook not just the name of the doctor and her field of medicine but also the first name, last name, email address, phone number, zip code, and city of residence we entered into the booking form.

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The Meta Pixel “hashed” those personal details—obscuring them through a form of cryptography—before sending them to Facebook. But that hashing doesn’t prevent Facebook from using the data. In fact, Meta explicitly uses the hashed information to link pixel data to Facebook profiles.

Using a free online tool, The Markup was also able to reverse most of our hashed test information that the pixel on Scripps Memorial Hospital’s website sent to Facebook.

Scripps Memorial didn’t respond to The Markup’s questions but it did remove the Meta Pixel from the final webpages in the appointment booking process after we shared our findings with the hospital.

On other hospitals’ websites, we documented the Meta Pixel collecting similarly intimate information about real patients.

When one real patient who participated in the Pixel Hunt study logged in to the MyChart portal for Piedmont Healthcare, a Georgia health system, the Meta Pixel installed in the portal told Facebook the patient’s name, the name of their doctor, and the time of their upcoming appointment, according to data collected by the participant’s Mozilla Rally browser extension.

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The Meta Pixel collects sensitive health information and shares it with Facebook

The Meta Pixel installed on Piedmont Healthcare’s MyChart portal sent Facebook details about a real patient’s upcoming doctor’s appointment, including date, time, the patient’s name, and the name of their doctor

1. 1Patient name
2. 2Date and time of appointment
3. 3Name of provider

{“classList”:”_Link+_actionable+_link+_readOnlyText+_InternalLink+main”,”destination”:”https://mychart.piedmont.org/PRD/app/communication-center/conversation?id=ID REDACTED BY THE MARKUP”,”id”:””,”imageUrl”:”/PRD/en-US/images/ProviderSilhouette.png”,”innerText”:”MyChart+Messaging+User\nREDACTED BY THE MARKUP\nAppointment+scheduled+from+MyChart\ nThere+is+a+message+in+this+conversation+that+has+not+yet+been+viewed.\n1Appointment+For:+NAME REDACTED BY THE MARKUP+(ID REDACTED BY THE MARKUP)+Visit+Type:+NEW+PATIENT+(ID REDACTED BY THE MARKUP)+ +2MM/DD/YYYY+0:00+XX+00+mins.+3NAME REDACTED BY THE MARKUP,+MD“,”numChildButtons”:0,”tag”:”a”,”name”:””}

Source: mychart.piedmont.org, Mozilla Rally

When another Pixel Hunt participant used the MyChart portal for Novant Health, a North Carolina–based health system, the pixel told Facebook the type of allergic reaction the patient had to a specific medication.

The Markup created our own MyChart account through Novant Health to further investigate and found the Meta Pixel collecting a variety of other sensitive information.

Clicking on one button prompted the pixel to tell Facebook the name and dosage of a medication in our health record, as well as any notes we had entered about the prescription. The pixel also told Facebook which button we clicked in response to a question about sexual orientation.

“Our Meta pixel placement is guided by a third party vendor and it has been removed while we continue to look into this matter,” Novant spokesperson Megan Rivers wrote in an email.

Epic Systems, the software company behind MyChart, has “specifically recommended heightened caution around the use of custom analytics scripts,” Stirling Martin, a senior vice president for the company, wrote in an email.

Facebook is able to infer intimate details about people’s health conditions using other means—for example, the fact that a person “liked” a Facebook group associated with a particular disease—but the data collected by pixels on hospitals’ websites is more direct. And in sharing it with Facebook, experts said, health care providers risk damaging patients’ trust in an increasingly digitized health system.

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2. 

The Markup found that filling out a survey through Novant Health shared sensitive information like sexual orientation with Facebook via the Meta Pixel. Source: www.novantmychart.org

“Almost any patient would be shocked to find out that Facebook is being provided an easy way to associate their prescriptions with their name,” said Glenn Cohen, faculty director of Harvard Law School’s Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics. “Even if perhaps there’s something in the legal architecture that permits this to be lawful, it’s totally outside the expectations of what patients think the health privacy laws are doing for them.”

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Legal Implications

Facebook’s data collection on hospital websites has been the subject of class action lawsuits in several states, with mixed results.

Those cases involve types of data that health law experts said are sensitive but less regulated than the health information The Markup documented the Meta Pixel collecting.

In 2016, a group of plaintiffs sued Facebook and a handful of health systems and organizations, alleging that the organizations had breached their own privacy policies and several state and federal laws—including wiretapping and intrusion on seclusion statutes—by collecting data via tracking technology on the health care providers’ websites.

The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California dismissed that case in 2017 for a variety of reasons, including that the plaintiffs failed to prove that Facebook had collected “protected health information,” as defined by HIPAA. Rather, the court found, Facebook had tracked plaintiffs on public-facing pages of the websites—such as the homepage or informational pages about diseases—where there was no evidence that the plaintiffs had established a patient relationship with the provider.

In 2019, plaintiffs brought a similar class action lawsuit in Suffolk County Superior Court against Massachusetts-based Partners Healthcare System, which has since changed its name to Mass General Brigham, alleging that the system had violated patients’ privacy and its own policies by installing the Meta Pixel and other tracking tools on its websites.

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The parties settled the case in January, with Mass General Brigham denying the allegations and admitting no wrongdoing or liability but paying $18.4 million to the plaintiffs and their attorneys. After the settlement, Mass General Brigham appears to have removed Meta Pixel and other tracking tools from many of its hospitals’ websites—but not all of them.

When The Markup tested the website of Brigham and Women’s Faulkner Hospital, clicking the “Request Appointment” button on a doctor’s page caused the Meta Pixel to send Facebook the text of the button, the doctor’s name, and the doctor’s field of medicine. Mass General did not respond to The Markup’s request for comment.

As with all such data we found the Meta Pixel collecting, it was sent to Facebook along with our computer’s public IP address.

“When an individual has sought out a provider and indicated that they want to make an appointment, at that point, any individually identifiable health information that they’ve provided in this session, in the past, or certainly in the future, is protected under HIPAA and could not be shared with a third party like Facebook,” Holtzman said.

The U.S. Department of Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights “cannot comment on open or potential investigations,” spokesperson Rachel Seeger wrote in an emailed statement.

“Generally, HIPAA covered entities and business associates should not be sharing identifiable information with social media companies unless they have HIPAA authorization [from the individual] and consent under state law,” said Iliana Peters, a privacy lawyer with the firm Polsinelli who previously headed HIPAA enforcement for the Office for Civil Rights.

Patients have the right to file HIPAA complaints with their medical providers, who are required to investigate the complaints, Peters said, adding, “I would hope that institutions would respond quickly to those types of complaints so that they aren’t escalated to a state or federal regulator.”

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“Plausible Deniability“

Most of the hospitals The Markup contacted for this story did not respond to our questions or explain why they chose to install Meta Pixel on their websites. But some did defend their use of the tracker.

“The use of this type of code was vetted,” wrote Chris King, a spokesperson for Northwestern Memorial Hospital, in Chicago. King did not respond to follow-up questions about the vetting process.

King said that no protected health information is hosted on or accessible through Northwestern Memorial’s website and that “Facebook automatically recognizes anything that might be close to personal information and does not store this data.”

In fact, Meta explicitly states in its business tools terms of service that the pixel and other trackers do collect personally identifiable information for a variety of purposes.

Houston Methodist Hospital, in Texas, was the only institution to provide detailed responses to The Markup’s questions. The hospital began using the pixel in 2017, spokesperson Stefanie Asin wrote, and is “confident” in Facebook’s safeguards and that the data being shared isn’t protected health information.

When The Markup tested Houston Methodist’s website, clicking the “Schedule Appointment” button on a doctor’s page prompted the Meta Pixel to send Facebook the text of the button, the name of the doctor, and the search term we used to find the doctor: “Home abortion.”

Houston Methodist doesn’t categorize that data as protected health information, Asin wrote, because a person who clicks the “Schedule Appointment” button may not follow through and confirm the appointment, or, they may be booking the appointment for a family member rather than for themself.

Since our further examination of the topic is ongoing, we elected to remove the pixel for now to be sure we are doing everything we can to protect our patients’ privacy while we are evaluating.

Stefanie Asin, Houston Methodist Hospital spokesperson

“The click doesn’t mean they scheduled,” she wrote. “It’s also worth noting that people often are exploring for a spouse, friend, elderly parent.”

Asin added that Houston Methodist believes Facebook “uses tools to detect and reject any health information, providing a barrier that prevents passage of [protected health information].”

Despite defending its use of the Meta Pixel, Houston Methodist Hospital removed the pixel from its website several days after responding to The Markup’s questions.

“Since our further examination of the topic is ongoing, we elected to remove the pixel for now to be sure we are doing everything we can to protect our patients’ privacy while we are evaluating,” Asin wrote in a follow-up email.

Facebook did not launch its sensitive health data filtering system until July 2020, three years after Houston Methodist began using the pixel, according to the New York Department of Financial Services’ investigation. And as recently as February of last year, the department reported that the system’s accuracy was poor.

That type of Band-Aid fix is a prime example, privacy advocates say, of the online advertising industry’s inability to police itself.

“The evil genius of Facebook’s system is they create this little piece of code that does the snooping for them and then they just put it out into the universe and Facebook can try to claim plausible deniability,” said Alan Butler, executive director of the Electronic Privacy Information Center. “The fact that this is out there in the wild on the websites of hospitals is evidence of how broken the rules are.”

Experts Sound Alarm On ‘Stalkerware,’ Which Can Easily Be Downloaded On Your Phone Without You Knowing
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Bribery –

Google has been documented bribing political officials.

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May 16, 2015 … Just in time for the European Union’s anti-trust case against search giant Google, the Mountain View company announced a groundbreaking …

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Former Google exec pleads guilty here in international bribery case …

May 20, 2016 … A former Google executive admitted today in federal court in Pittsburgh that he received some $3.2 million in kickbacks from companies in the …

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Your Phone Is Killing You And Destroying Your Life

By Donna Lawson

Did you know that the electronics in your phone, AND, 99% of the ‘Apps’ on your phone are tracking you, spying on you, tricking you, and reporting to others when you:

– Get an abortion
– Have sex
– Get pregnant
– Don’t go to work
– Enter, or leave, any building
– Get into, or out of, your car
– Have a sex worker take Uber, Lyft or any taxi or ride service to where you are
– Receive money
– Buy anything
– Are depressed
– Breath heavy
– Are located at any location on Earth
– Move from any location on Earth to another location
– Take anything out of your wallet with a chip in it
– Vote
– Express a political opinion
– Use a dating site (Axciom and Equifax make psych profiles on you from your date data)
– Use any ‘gay’ code words
– Use any ‘political’ code words
– Speak, or listen, to anyone within 20 feet
– And thousands of other invasions of privacy…

It does these things even if you pushed the button to ‘turn it off’. Most phones don’t actually turn off when you think they are off because ‘spies-gotta-spy’.

COVID is doing a great job of killing off all of the idiot people who grab the door-knob, bare-handed, at the post office, the Starbucks and the grocery store. COVID waits on public surfaces to kill the sheep of society.

Silicon Valley is doing a great job of killing off all the lives of the rest of the sheep who are too dumb to take the battery out of their phone. The people that walk around with a phone, or tablet, always powered on are committing digital suicide. If you buy a phone that you can’t take the battery out of, you are just an idiot.

You may not want to face the truth but I can show you thousands of court records, Congressional investigations and university studies proving that every single assertion in this report is true.

Everybody in Congress knows this is all true but they do nothing because Silicon Valley is bribing almost every single one of them to do nothing. Silicon Valley’s largest source of income is your privacy!

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — As we recognize October as Domestic Violence Awareness Month, we want to shed light on a type of abuse that many don’t even realize is such a problem.
It’s a tool readily available to any abuser and very difficult for victims to detect.
READ MORE: Ground-Breaking Ceremony Held At Site Of New $650 Million ‘Hub’ In New BrunswickCBS2’s Jessica Layton has more on the dangers of cyberstalking and how you can protect yourself.
It’s so simple, it’s scary — software that allows a stalker to secretly spy through an unsuspecting person’s cellphone without their consent.
Experts say “Stalkerware” use is rapidly on the rise, increasing 60% from September 2020 to May 2021.
“Unfortunately, it has been on the increase from being a few hundred apps available in the marketplace,” said Tony Anscombe of ESET Internet Security.
The concept may have started with decent intentions — parents installing apps to keep tabs on their kids. But as Anscombe explained, it has turned into an industry where a stalker can track a victim’s every move, without them ever realizing it.
“These apps can key log, so they can see every key stroke on your device. They can extract all the information from your contacts, your messages, your email,” Anscombe said.
The dangerous app disguises itself as something that is an important function of the operating device on the phone, and it only takes minutes to install. So in the time it takes a person to get up and use the bathroom, take a shower or make a snack, their partner may already have them under surveillance.
Experts showed Layton how easy it is to intercept data once the app is on a phone. Groups like Coalition Against Stalkerware also share warning videos, explaining this is seen most often in cases of domestic abuse.
“When someone is controlling all these aspects of your personal information you have to worry about what they have access to. I know that was a concern for me,” domestic violence survivor Heather Glogolich said.
READ MORE: Some New Yorkers Say Hacking Of MTA Shows How Vulnerable The City And Riding Public AreGlogolich, a police lieutenant in New Jersey, understands in many ways how hijacking a personal devices is just one way an abuser exercises control over a victim.
“I couldn’t leave my phone down without my ex-husband looking through it,” Glogolich said.
“So technology plays a big role in trapping victims and keeping them in that abusive relationship,” survivor Neisha Himes added.
Himes didn’t know the dangers of digital abuse when she was trying to leave a toxic relationship, but she has since dedicated her life to helping other victims. She said she now sees it almost every day.
“If they have a phone that maybe the offender purchased for them, we have to tell them, ‘OK, let’s get you a new phone,’” Himes said.
Glogolich and Himes are supporters of a program developed by Sheri Kurdakul, the CEO of Victim’s Voice. It’s a web-based app that gives power to the victim, allowing him or her to document cases of abuse in real time on their device to present to the courts. They’re taken through a series of guided questions vetted by prosecutors and the answers are encrypted and stored in a secure server.
“It’s a progressive web app, which means there’s nothing to download. You won’t find us in any app store. That also means there’s no dangerous icons on sitting on your phone and there’s no trigger such as a receipt that you downloaded the app,” Kurdakul said. “A lot of victims’ emails and such are being tracked and monitored all the time.”
That kind of awareness and privacy is paramount. That’s why even just knowing there could be Stalkerware on your phone is the first step to protecting yourself.
Low battery life, high data usage and slow performance on your phone may also be red flags, yet sometimes intuition is the best indicator that your personal device isn’t so private.
So if you suspect you’re being stalked through technology, get expert help. Take the phone to a tech company so they can run programs to check it for you. And also, get police involved.
Experts say never try to delete the app yourself. The abuser will get notified and that could put a person in an even more dangerous situation.
CBS2’s Jessica Layton contributed to this report.

Is T-Mobile Liable For “Complicit Homicide” By Allowing Teens To Use Facebook, Google and Instagram, Who Are Facing Lawsuits for Teen Mental Health Crisis, In A MASSIVE Profits-Over-Safety Mobile Services Abuse Charge

Neumann Law Group is now investigating claims against Meta Platforms, Inc., the parent company of Facebook and Instagram for their intentional manipulation of the mental health of young and at-risk users of their products. In October 2021, a Facebook whistleblower testified to the U.S. Senate how Facebook, Instagram, and Meta used tactics to manipulate young people into using their products for extended periods of time and intentionally created a toxic environment leading to significant psychological harm to America’s youth. Learn More at Neumann Law Group SEE THIS LINK, THIS HAPPENS EVERY FEW HOURS THANKS TO MARK AND SHERYL: Every few hours another teen is MURDERED by Facebook/Instagram executives. Nobody does anything about it because California politicians OWN the stock in Facebook/Instagram and also get their political campaign cash from Facebook/Instagram/Google !!! Should Mark Zuckerberg be charged with Homicide? He knew, for over a decade, that he was killing these kids, but buying a part of Hawaii is expensive, and he needed the cash! THE UNITED STATES CONGRESS CAN MAKE INSTAGRAM AND FACEBOOK DISAPPEAR OFF THE INTERNET, IN ANY 60 SECOND PERIOD, SIMPLY BY ORDERING DOJ TO DELETE THEIR DNS RECORDS. BOOM! GONE! DEMAND THAT YOUR ELECTED OFFICIALS ORDER THE DNS RECORDS FOR INSTAGRAM AND FACEBOOK DELETED, AND NOT TURNED BACK ON, UNTIL FACEBOOK AND INSTAGRAM PROVE TO CONGRESS THAT NO TEENS WILL BE AFFECTED BY THEIR SITES AGAIN! DO YOU REALLY WANT YOUR KIDS ANYWHERE NEAR FACEBOOK AND THEIR VR SEX PERVERTS?:

1. Were you a minor when you signed up for Facebook and/or Instagram;
2. Were you using Facebook and/or Instagram for more than three (3) hours per day at that time; and
3. Have you received documented mental health treatment (with no prior history of mental health issues)?

Facebook grilled in Senate hearing over teen mental health – Sheryl Sandberg knew…

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Internal research at Facebook showing that Instagram might be harmful to the mental health of teen girls is in line with other research in the field. That complicates efforts to minimize the findings.

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The release of the research arrives the evening before a Congressional hearing on the effect of Facebook and Instagram on kids’ mental health. That hearing is scheduled for Thursday at 10:30AM ET .

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So perhaps it isn’t surprising that an internal research effort at the company, revealed last week, found that teens associate the service with a host of men

Facebook Very Aware That Instagram Harms Teen Mental Health But Profits On Its Crimes

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For several months now, Facebook execs have been kicking around an eerie product idea few people seem to want: Instagram for Kids.

Facebook knows Instagram is bad for teenagers’ mental healthbut wants the profits anyway

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Facebook’s internal research shows that teen users’ mental health is negatively impacted by using the company’s photo- and video-sharing app, Instagram.

Want to help end the tech oligarch’s rape of society? Never, EVER: use, read, quote, link to, paste from, or refer to; anything on corrupt and contrived: Twitter – Google – Alphabet – Facebook – Meta – Instagram – Netflix or YouTube! Don’t expand their reach! Don’t be their digital bitch! Stop being an addict to Silicon Valley’s social media scam! Keep the battery out of your phone so Big Tech can’t continue to spy on you. Did you know you CAN’T turn an iPhone off. Apple iPhone’s pretend to be “off” but still monitor you with reserve power. The government should shut these companies down but they don’t because these companies pay the largest bribes on Earth to politicians! Demand that Congress shut down these big tech abusers that cause child suicides, bullying, sex trafficking, money laundering, tax evasion, political bribery, election manipulation and other social crimes.

Have you, or your teen, suffered from?

• Depression
• Anxiety
• Eating disorders
• Body Dysmorphia
• Self-harm
• ADD/ADHD
• ODD
• Selling their bodies (Instagram is now the #1 source IN THE WORLD, for teenage prostitutes. Rappers spend 1/2 the day talking young girls on Instagram into ‘free plane tickets’)
• Suicidal ideation
• Suicidal attempts
• Any and all other mental health illnesses

Facebook acknowledges Instagram’s damage to teen mental health, but …

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The Wall Street Journal viewed several internal Facebook documents discussing the issue of teen mental health, the company having performed various focus groups and surveys between 2019 and 2021 …

Harmed by Social Media: Facebook, Instagram Linked to Teen Mental …

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Hold social media platforms accountable for their actions. Contact our law firm to explore your options. Social media platforms like Facebook and Instagram have been linked to a recent increase in depression and other mental health issues among teenagers, according to researchers and journalists studying this issue, including an in-depth investigation conducted by The Wall Street Journal and …

Facebook Knew Instagram Was Harmful to Mental Health of Teen Girls … Profits over Child Safety

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One internal Facebook presentation stated that among teens who reported suicidal thoughts, 13% of British users and 6% of American users believed Instagram was to blame.Facebook also found that 14% of boys in the U.S. said Instagram made them feel worse about themselves, reported the Journal.Researchers highlighted Instagram’s Explore page, which provides users with curated posts from a wide …

Facebook publishes slides on how Instagram affects teen mental health

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Facebook has published two slide decks detailing its research into how Instagram affects teens’ mental health. The slides were heavily cited by The Wall Street Journal earlier this month in a …

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Google whistleblower claims tech giant’s Developer Studio division has been infiltrated by ‘pedophilic religious doomsday cult’ Fellowship of Friends that was featured in a Spotify podcast series called ‘Revelations’ last year

• Kevin Lloyd, 34, was a video producer for Google Developer Studio from 2017 until he was fired in February 2021
• Lloyd in August 2021 filed a lawsuit at California Superior Court alleging that he lost his job because he questioned a ‘cult’ that many of his colleagues joined
• Earlier this month Lloyd wrote a Medium post about his time at Google, and his concerns about Fellowship of Friends
• Google insist that they are unaware of a person’s religious beliefs during hiring; Lloyd says they know about the influence of the cult, but turn a blind eye 

By Harriet Alexander 

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An apocalyptic ‘cult’ led by an eccentric misogynist accused of sexual abuse of young men has taken over a division of Google, a whistleblower has claimed.

Kevin Lloyd, 34, claims that he was fired from his job as a video developer at Google last year because he began questioning the influence of the cult.

In August, Lloyd filed a discrimination case in California Superior Court, alleging he was fired for digging into Fellowship of Friends – a group based in the small Californian town of Oregon House, and whose members made up a large percentage of employees in his division.

‘Plaintiff’s preliminary research into Oregon House and the Fellowship of Friends described the Fellowship as a destructive cult, with a pedophilic leader who makes false prophecies about the end of the world,’ the lawsuit claims.

‘Plaintiff became alarmed that Google was involved with and/or financially supporting such an organization.’

Earlier this month, Lloyd wrote a lengthy description of his case on Medium, and spoke to The New York Times – who corroborated many of the lawsuit’s claims through interviews with eight current and former employees of the Google business unit.

Kevin Lloyd, 34, claims he lost his job at Google because he raised concerns about how many people within the Google Developer Studio were affiliated with Fellowship of Friends

Google’s campus in Mountain View is 180 miles from the small town of Oregon House, population 1,250 – yet half of the people Lloyd met were from Oregon House, he said

Lloyd said he began work at Google in 2017, as part of Google Developer Studio (GDS) – the tech giant’s internal production company, making adverts and video content.

He said it slowly dawned on him that many of the people he met at GDS were from the same small Californian town, 180 miles north of Google’s Silicon Valley home, in Mountain View.

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The town of Oregon House is home to 1,250 people, and yet Lloyd said he realized that half of the 25 people he met at GDS were from the same town.

Lloyd said he noticed that many of the outside vendors, such as caterers and entertainers at corporate events, were also from Oregon House.

In 2018, Lloyd said, he was speaking to a freelancer who was working with them that day, and was from a town near Oregon House.

Lloyd recalls the freelancer telling him: ‘Oregon House isn’t a town. It’s a cult.’

He began investigating the freelancer’s claim, and said he was shocked by what he found.

‘There are online support groups for former Fellowship of Friends members to help them process the trauma endured during their membership, as well as problems that arise after leaving,’ Lloyd’s lawsuit states.

Fellowship of Friends, which is based in Oregon House, was founded in 1970 by Robert Earl Burton, a former school teacher in the San Francisco Bay area.

‘From its inception the vision of the Fellowship was, and remains, to establish a practical spiritual organization and to make it available to anyone interested in pursuing the spiritual work of awakening,’ they state on their website.

Robert Earl Burton, now believed to be around 83, founded Fellowship of Friends in 1970. He has been accused in multiple lawsuits of sexual abuse

Burton is seen with a European artwork purchased with the organization’s cash. Members must give 10 percent of their earnings to the group

Burton, believed to be now aged in his early 80s, sought to create a center celebrating the fine arts – with opera, ballet, works of art and literature the focus.

He based his organization in Oregon House, and created a winery where his devotees worked, when not studying the arts.

Google even purchased wine, the lawsuit claims, from the Grant Marie Winery, an allegedly cult-affiliated vineyard run by a Fellowship member in Oregon House.

But critics claimed that he had sexually abused new members of his group – in particular young boys.

In 1984 a former member filed a $2.75 million lawsuit claiming that young men who joined the organization ‘had been forcefully and unlawfully sexually seduced by Burton,’ according to documents obtained by The New York Times.

In 1996, another former member accused Burton in a law suit of sexual misconduct with him while he was minor. Both suits were settled out of court.

Some accusers, Lloyd alleged, had been flown to the country under false pretenses and then abused.

Members of Fellowship of Friends are seen with Burton (left, in pale blue suit) holding a meeting

What is Fellowship of Friends?

Founded on January 1, 1970 by San Francisco school teacher Robert Earl Burton, Fellowship of Friends is a non-profit religious organization, headquartered in Oregon House, California.

Burton based his faith system on a philosophy called the Fourth Way, founded by an Armenian philosopher and mystic, George Gurdjieff, who lived from 1866 to 1949.

Burton adopted Gurdjieff’s believe that people are in a hypnotic ‘waking sleep’, and need to work on themselves through studying art, music and literature.

He named his 1,200-acre headquarters Apollo, and his 1,800 followers gave 10 percent of their earnings to the organization – which spent the money on art, fine wine and culture.

Critics have filed lawsuits claiming sexual abuse.

Other critics said that the group was strongly anti-women, and celebrated white European men above all.

In September, investigative journalist Jennings Brown published a six-part podcast produced for Spotify, entitled Revelations.

Brown had spent three years from 2018 digging into the group, and documented allegations of sexual abuse in what he termed a ‘doomsday cult’.

Lloyd said he was aghast that GDS was so strongly linked to the Fellowship, with GDS’s director, Peter Lubbers, described as a longtime member of the group, who joined shortly after he moved to the U.S. from the Netherlands.

Lubbers introduced a video producer named Gabe Pannell to the Fellowship: Pannell was pictured with Burton in 2015, and described as a ‘new student’, The New York Times report.

Lloyd’s lawsuit states: ‘Mr Lubbers gained status and praise relative to the increase of money flowing to the Fellowship through his efforts at Google that put (and kept) other Fellowship members — directly or indirectly — on Google’s payroll.’

Lubbers insisted faith had nothing to do with his hiring.

‘My personal religious beliefs are a deeply held private matter,’ Lubbers told The New York Times.

‘In all my years in tech, they have never played a role in hiring. I have always performed my role by bringing in the right talent for the situation — bringing in the right vendors for the jobs.’

Pannell told the paper that those hired were brought in from ‘a circle of trusted friends and families with extremely qualified backgrounds’.

Lloyd, in his Medium post – which does not name Lubbers or Pannell – said that anxiety about the Fellowship, and its reputation, sparked a panic attack, for which he was admitted to ER.

He said in his court documents that he worried events he produced ‘could somehow be used to funnel money back into the Fellowship of Friends.’

Burton is seen in a 1981 photo at Oregon House. In 1984, a former member filed a $2.75 million lawsuit claiming that young men who joined the organization ‘had been forcefully and unlawfully sexually seduced by Burton,’ according to documents obtained by The New York Times. The suit was settled out of court

Fired in February 2021, he has retained a lawyer who previously represented a woman at Lubbers’ previous company, Kelly Services, and sued in 2008 in a similar case.

Lynn Noyes claimed that Kelly Services had failed to promote her because she was not a member of the Fellowship.

A California court awarded her $6.5 million in damages.

‘Anyone outside of the Fellowship is seen as somehow inferior and at times adversarial,’ Lloyd’s lawsuit says.

‘Those that express serious concerns, criticism or question the group may be eventually perceived as enemies.’

Google told The New York Times that they were barred by law from inquiring about someone’s religious practices during the hiring process.

‘We have longstanding employee and supplier policies in place to prevent discrimination and conflicts of interest, and we take those seriously,’ a Google spokeswoman, Courtenay Mencini, said in a statement.

‘It’s against the law to ask for the religious affiliations of those who work for us or for our suppliers, but we’ll of course thoroughly look into these allegations for any irregularities or improper contracting practices.

‘If we find evidence of policy violations, we will take action.’

Fellowship of Friends was approached for comment.

Big Tech’s: Google – Alphabet – Youtube and their Cartel, the issues, that the public and the news media have complained about include: producing child suicides, racism, misogyny, child mental health threats, domestic spying, data harvesting, sex trafficking, election manipulation, tax evasion, Fusion GPS/Media Matters/ Black Cube hit jobs on competitors, censorship, contrived market monopolization, intellectual property theft, political bribery and many other social crimes! An unusually large number of their staff have been arrested for, or charged with, sex crimes, including under-age trafficking. This entity is one of the largest operators of bribes to public officials. Some of those bribes include billions of dollars of, non-FEC reported, search engine rigging for the political campaigns of the very politicians who are supposed to regulate them. “Google is a sick corrupt criminal business run by sex trafficking perverts and sociopaths…” Say GOOGLE’S own inside employees, Divorce Court records of Google executives, 70+ State & Federal investigations and major news outlets. GOOGLE IS A PROPAGANDA OPERATION – NEVER TRUST IT!

– Google spies on competitors and steals their technology
– Google – Alphabet – YouTube stock is owned by almost all of the California politicians and their families and that is why Google
– Alphabet – YouTube is never regulated and always protected by them for their political and profiteering manipulations
– Google runs tens of millions of dollars of defamation attacks against competitors
– Google hides all media and news coverage for competitors of Larry Page’s boyfriend: Elon Musk
– Google lies to the public about what they really do with the public’s data
– Google promotes illegal immigration in order to get cheap labor and control votes
– Google runs VC funding back-lists against start-ups that are competitive
– Google bribes thousands of politicians
– Google is a criminal RICO-violating monopoly
– Google rigs the stock market with Flash-boy, Pump/Dump and Microblast SEC violating computer tricks
– Google pays bribes to politicians in Google and YouTube stock
– Google manipulates who gets to see what web-sites, globally, for competitor black-lists
– Google has a “no poaching” Silicon Valley jobs blacklist
– Google bosses sexually abuse women and young boys
– Google bosses run sex trafficking operations in the Epstein and NXVIUM cults
– Google bosses control the NVCA financing cartel over start-ups
– Most of the people that Google hires are homosexual leftists
– Google has placed the majority of the corporate staff in at least one White House
– Google controls national elections for anti-competitive purposes
– The company “Polyhop”, in the HOUSE OF CARDS tv show, does all the crimes that Google actually does in reality
– Google’s law firms, like Wilson Sonsini, are corrupt conduits for payola and political conduit-relays
– Google bribes some politicians with revolving door jobs
– Google is primarily responsible for destroying the Bay Area Housing opportunities
– Google runs DDoS attacks on competitors by massively crawling their sites
– Google boss Andy Rubin runs a sex slave farm according to his own family
– Google boss Eric Schmidt was a philandering sex-penthouse owner according to vast news articles
– Google executives hire so many hookers that one of them, Mr. Hayes, was killed by his hooker
– Google executives sexually abuse so many women that the women staff of Google walked out one day
– In the 2009 White House, you could n### GOOGLE –ot swing a cat without hitting a Google insider
– Google has paid covert bribes, PAC funds, real estate and search rigging payola to every CA Senator
– Google has paid bribes, through its lobby fronts, to halt FBI, SEC, FEC and FTC investigations of Google crimes
– Google was funded by the CIA, via In-Q-Tel, a so called “501 c3 charity” which was caught with tons of cocaine
– Google gets millions of dollars of taxpayer cash for spying on Americans inside the USA
– Google’s map service was a spy system paid for by taxpayers money that Google now profits off of
– Nancy Pelosi and Dianne Feinstein have promised to “protect” Google because their families profit off Google stocks
– Payment receipts prove that Google and Gawker/Gizmodo exchanged cash and staff for Character Assassination attacks
– Google VC’s and bosses have spent $30M+ rigging the U.S. Patent Office to protect Google and harm Google competitors
– Google bribed it’s lawyer into position as head of the U.S. Patent office in order to have her protect Google
– To rig insider stock trades, Google hides negative Tesla stories and pumps positive Tesla stories on “push days”
– Google and Elon Musk Co-own, co-invest and co-market stocks covertly while running anti-trust schemes
– Google rarely likes, or hires, black employees per federal and news media investigations
– Google hired most of the Washington, DC K Street lobby firms and told them to “do what ever they could”
– The film: “Miss Sloane” depicts only 2% of the illicit lobbying tactics Google employs daily
– Demands for an FTC and FBI raid of Google, for criminal activity, securities law and election felonies have been filed
– Google’s David Drummond had his Woodside, CA Quail Road house bugged revealing sex and financial misdeeds

There is no doubt about whether Google has the ability to control voters. In laboratory and online experiments conducted in the United States, we were able to boost the proportion of people who favored any candidate by between 37 and 63 percent after just one search session. The impact of viewing biased rankings repeatedly over a period of weeks or months would undoubtedly be larger. In our basic experiment, participants were randomly assigned to one of three groups in which search rankings favored either Candidate A, Candidate B or neither candidate. Participants were given brief descriptions of each candidate and then asked how much they liked and trusted each candidate and whom they would vote for. Then they were allowed up to 15 minutes to conduct online research on the candidates using a Google-like search engine we created called Kadoodle. Each group had access to the same 30 search results—all real search results linking to real web pages from a past election. Only the ordering of the results differed in the three groups. People could click freely on any result or shift between any of five different results pages, just as one can on Google’s search engine.

When our participants were done searching, we asked them those questions again, and, voilà: On all measures, opinions shifted in the direction of the candidate who was favored in the rankings. Trust, liking and voting preferences all shifted predictably. More alarmingly, we also demonstrated this shift with real voters during an actual electoral campaign—in an experiment conducted with more than 2,000 eligible, undecided voters throughout India during the 2014 Lok Sabha election there—the largest democratic election in history, with more than 800 million eligible voters and 480 million votes ultimately cast. Even here, with real voters who were highly familiar with the candidates and who were being bombarded with campaign rhetoric every day, we showed that search rankings could boost the proportion of people favoring any candidate by more than 20 percent—more than 60 percent in some demographic groups. Given how powerful this effect is, it’s possible that Google decided the winner of the Indian election.  Google’s own daily data on election-related search activity (subsequently removed from the Internet, but not before my colleagues and I downloaded the pages) showed that Narendra Modi, the ultimate winner, outscored his rivals in search activity by more than 25 percent for sixty-one consecutive days before the final votes were cast. That high volume of search activity could easily have been generated by higher search rankings for Modi.

The Silicon Valley “venture capital” offices on Sand Hill Road in Palo Alto, right above the Stanford University campus, work together to decide how they will manipulate elections in a way that will give them the most profits and power. They then tell the bosses at Google, Facebook, Netflix and the other big tech companies that they finance, how to manipulate the media message (with a little help from their CIA advisors at In-Q-Tel), to make the public perceive the left wing message that they want. Google, and it’s Cartel (Alphabet, Youtube, and hundreds of other shell-company facades) are a criminal organization engaged in felony-class crimes. Google’s bosses bribe politicians, regulators and law enforcement officials to hold off prosecution. At Google: Kent Walker, Andy Rubin, Larry Page, Eric Schmidt, Sergy Brin, Jared Cohen, Yasmin Green, David Drummond and Ian Fette are so enmeshed in sex scandals, election manipulation, and White House bribes that it is hard to comprehend how they can get any legitimate work done. Between all of the sex cult activity; hookers; rent boys; political bribes to Pelosi, Harris, Newson, and Feinstein; DDoS attacks they run; CIA and NSA stealth deals; privacy harvesting; Scientology-like employee indoctrination; cheap Asian labor; covert Axciom scams and other illicit things they get up to; one just has to wonder. For more about Google’s corruption see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Google

Various Plaintiffs are sharing information with each other’s legal teams and investigators.

In the multiple cases, the charges against Google/Alphabet and it’s owners, executives and contractors include the following issues.

Absolute proof, evidential materials, witness testimony, technical analysis results, criminal investigation documents, government ethics investigation documents from multiple nations, private investigation records, subpeona-verified surveillance records, public testimony, news stories, journalist background notes, and other data, provide compelling and irrefutable proof of these actions, maliciously and consciously taken by Google/Alphabet and it’s owners, executives and contractors.

The charges included in the associated cases are, but are not limited to:

• FRAUD
• TORT CONFIRMED BUSINESS INTERFERENCE
• HARASSMENT
• SECURITIES FRAUD AND MANIPULATION
• RICO STATUTE VIOLATIONS AND OPERATION OF AN ILLEGAL CARTEL
• CONSPIRED ACTIVITIES AGAINST A CLASS OF THE PUBLIC
• CAMPAIGN FINANCE FRAUD
• MALICIOUS DEFAMATION
• FEDERAL CONTRACT MANIPULATION
• COVERT MANIPULATION OF ECONOMIC RESOURCES AGAINST COMPETITIVE INTERESTS
• PRIVACY RIGHTS ABUSE
• FEDERAL “RICO” VIOLATIONS
• MANIPULATION OF PUBLIC OFFICIALS, AND PUBLIC OFFICES
• EMPLOYEE ABUSE
• MALICIOUS CYBER-STALKING HARASSMENT OF THE PUBLIC AND INTENTIONAL DEFAMATION
• MISAPPROPRIATION OF GOVERNMENT FUNDS
• MONOPOLY AND ANTI-TRUST ACTIONS
• LYING TO CONGRESS
• INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY THEFT
• BRIBERY

### In one case, the evidence is presented proving that Google/Alphabet operates as a private government by controlling portions of the U.S. Government, the European Union and major market systems. This is not only illegal but begins to break the very fabric of the Constitutional construct of many nations. By placing it’s staff, and bribery money, inside of top state and federal agencies, Google has attempted“Coup”-like behaviours in order to promote wild ideologies held by it’s billionaire owners, who have no concept of normalcy.

### Google VC’s, owners, investment bankers, lobbyists and executives were the primary financing and manipulation group behind the taxpayer scam documented in the 60 MINUTES episode, called THE CLEANTECH CRASH. This abuse of public funds, via a payola campaign finance kick-back scam has lost taxpayers nearly a trillion dollars of their money. While the public is aware of the FBI raid on Solyndra and the mysterious, sudden, disappearance of Abound, Fisker, Ener1, A123, and the rest, immediately after receipt of vast amounts of taxpayer dollars; the deep connections to all of the Google key players, finances and holdings is truly disturbing. The fact that Google billionaire: Eric Schmidt’s position, in White House policy meetings and federal hiring decisions, exceeds the combined positions of ALL OF THE U.S. CONGRESS is disturbing to most people from ANY political party.

### In another case, a group of major entities ranging from Comcast and the cable TV industry; to AT&T and the wireless services industry; to the ACLU and the global privacy advocacy alliances; to The nations of Russia, China and others; To the entire European Union; to the feature films: “The Corporation” and“Inside Job” on Netflix; to parent groups concerned about spying on their children… and a host of others, have presented documentation, and statements which clearly indicate that Google/Alphabet is engaged in covert and disturbing anti-social behaviour which is destructive to humanity and ENRON-like in operation.

### In other cases by individuals and small businesses, Plaintiffs were asked to testify in a federal law enforcement case which was later found, by third party law enforcement and news investigators, to lead back to Defendant staff and investors. In the course of these investigations, Plaintiffs learned of Defendant’s attacks on Plaintiffs. In retribution and in competitive and illegal monopolistic behaviour, Defendant engaged in conscious, malicious, coordinated, targeted attacks against Plaintiffs designed to damage, harass and terminate the personal and business activities of Plaintiffs. Defendants used layered shell companies, covert PACS, family trusts, off-shore accounts and false-named stock trading accounts ( now exposed by whistle-blowers, Chinese hackers and law enforcement surveillance) to attempt to hide their payments, to attack contractors and beneficiaries who assisted them in the attacks and benefited from the attacks on the Plaintiffs. Such coordinated and malicious attacks against Plaintiffs included:

• The hiding, manipulation and rigging of Internet links and search engine results, using Internet architecture manually, and with forethought, controlled by Defendants, in order to negatively affect the brand and reputation and income of Plaintiffs, across the web, globally.
• Plaintiffs had business ventures which competed with Defendants and which existed years prior to Defendants. Defendants venture capitol agents requested the review of Plaintiffs products, under the false guise of “possibly investing”, and “confidential review”and then copied those products and made many billions of dollars off of those illegally cloned products and technologies. Defendants chose to “Cheat rather than compete”. Defendants will produce federally certified documents, emails, financial tracking and NDA’s, among the evidence to prove these claims.
• The posting of character assassination articles about Plaintiffs, the production of which were partially coordinated by Defendant staff and investors; coordinated by Defendant, along with with it’s attack contractors, on the first line of the front page of their search engine and locking it there so that no outside IT or other positive global news stories could move it.
• Upon legal receipt of removal demands from Plaintiffs lawyers, Defendant refused, in writing, to remove the attacks in order to damage Plaintiffs maximally.
• As part of a concerted, organized, planned and comprehensive retribution character assassination campaign that Defendants financed and organized against Plaintiffs, Defendants went to the extensive effort of financing, producing and publishing on their global broadcasting property: YOUTUBE, an animated film which attacked Plaintiffs with specific coordinated targeted scripting and mentioning Plaintiffs by name. When plaintiffs contacted Defendants with removal requests, Defendants not only refused to remove the maliciously attacking video but then, proceeded to up-rank it and lock in on the front page search results.
• DNS, web pointing, down-ranking and search results targeting in order to damage the Internet operation of Plaintiffs web-sites and press releases. Plaintiffs hired IT experts to do a multi-year sting and IT analysis investigation, involving the setting of hundreds of “trap servers” around the world, to prove, over a five+ year period, that Defendant was manipulating search results in order to damage some parties and falsely enhance others, who were Defendant’s covert partners. Other parties, including universities, research groups, the European Union, The Government of China, The Government of Russia and other parties, have now emulated and proven these results showing definitive proof of Defendant’s malicious manipulation of the Internet in order to damage it’s competitors and promote it’s friends while also damaging it’s friend’s competitors.
• Google covertly owned and managed Tesla Motors assets and marketing and targeted Tesla competitor’s while seeking to manipulate TSLA stock valuations by manipulating media coverage tied to “stock pumps” by Google investors and state and federal policy decisions via illegal payola to public officials
• Defendants had a financial, stock market, management, marketing, and personal relationship with attack services provider “In-Q-Tel”, a lobbyist and tactical services group who provided attack services against Plaintiffs on behalf of Defendants.
• Defendants had a financial, stock market, management, marketing, and personal relationship with attack services provider “New America Foundation”, a lobbyist and tactical services group who provided attack services against Plaintiffs on behalf of Defendants.
• Defendants had a financial, stock market, management, marketing, and personal relationship with attack services provider “Gawker Media”, a marketing and publication group who provided attack services against Plaintiffs on behalf of Defendants.
• Defendants had a financial, stock market, management, marketing, and personal relationship with attack services provider “DOES 1-12”, a technical services group who provided attack services against Plaintiffs on behalf of Defendants.
• Defendants had a covert financial, stock market, management, marketing, and personal relationship with most of the attack services providers and the director business competitors of Plaintiff “Group Z”, and Defendants sought to “Cheat Rather Than Compete” against Plaintiff’s products, which have now been proven, by industry documentation, to have been superior to Defendant’s. In light of the accruing charges and evidence, Defendant was forced to break-up it’s main operation, changing it’s name from: “Google” to “Alphabet”, in order to attempt to mitigate it’s damages in this, and other pending cases, by creating a false-front structure whereby Defendants attempt to hide their tax and legal liability obligations by, on paper, reducing the operation into smaller parts. Defendants will ask the court to see through Defendants sham and recognize the entire operation, and each and every part, and owner, as being liable for Plaintiffs damages.
• Defendants copied dozens of Plaintiffs products, which the federal patent office had issued patents and secured files on as being first developed by Plaintiff, years before any interest in, or development by Plaintiffs. Defendants either gave away the copied products, in order to terminate Plaintiff’s revenue opportunities, or used billions of dollars of “unjust rewards” secured, according to the U.S. Treasury, from ill-gotten gains via contract manipulations and illegitimate tax loss write-offs and payola tax waivers, to flood Plaintiff’s out of the market and order financing blacklists to be created by their investors. Google/Alphabet spent billions of dollars in bribes to seek to “outlaw” the patent process in order to avoid paying invention royalties to inventors and put their senior staff in charge of the U.S. Patent Office in order to halt patents which were not beneficial to Google/Alphabet.
• Defendants engaged in additional malicious Cyber-stalking harassment using retained writers who did not disclose their “shill”, “meat puppet”, “Troll” and “Click-Farm” media attack services function for Defendants.
• Hacking of Plaintiffs via “back-doors” for competitive intelligence and IP theft
• Defendants engaged in other malicious activities, against Plaintiffs, disclosed to Plaintiffs by whistle-blowers and ex-employees of Defendants which will be documented in Defendants electronic communications, from the period in question, held by multiple third parties. Nearly a hundred thousand articles, news stories, investigative reports, third party lawsuits, law enforcement notations, ethics reviews, international investigations and other publicly available documents, have now been published which prove that Defendants have engaged in the above activities against various parties. Plaintiffs have additional knowledge, and evidence, of such actions and of on-going investigations which hold additional, yet-to-be-made-public evidence which proves and verifies Plaintiff’s charges. A jury trial is demanded. In the course of this trial, Plaintiffs will provide indisputable evidence of the financial, personal, coordinating management directive, business competitive and personal deeply connected relationships of all Defendants, in a manner which proves, to any party, that Defendants worked to coordinate a malicious, financially and personally damaging attack on Plaintiffs.

Google, Netflix, YouTube, Facebook, META, etc. exist to mass manipulate populations and run stock market scams for their sociopath owners. Essentially, Google, Netflix, YouTube, Facebook, META, etc. get so much money and so many orders from the CIA/NSA that they ARE the CIA/NSA!!! From INSIDE Google, our team saw Google manipulate the entire internet to hype up Larry Page’s “boyfriend’: Elon Musk and Tesla, which Google execs owned a portion of, while sabotaging Tesla’s competitors. Google illicitly and illegally timed these manipulations with stock market pump-and-dump efforts to exploit insider trading. That is a felony violation of RICO, Antitrust and other laws.

Every single thing that Google does is contrived to harm a competitor, a politician, an employee whistle-blower or some other business adversary. There are no “bugs”, “operator errors”, “server anomalies” or other media “accidents” at Google. Everything Google does is contrived, at a psychological warfare kind of level, to change a social perception.Google must show its software to FBI, SEC, FTC and our search engine optimisation experts to prove that they did not engage in these crimes. The fact is: We can prove they did the crimes and FBI experts can help us prove it! Google is known as the “Nazi’s of the Internet”.

In a case unfolding in Britain over whether Google wrongly demoted price comparison rival Foundem from its search results in favour of paid-for adverts, Google must now decide which it values more: the algorithms that rank its search results, or its stance that manually fiddling with those results to promote its own paid-for products over rivals’ sites doesn’t break competition laws. The integrity of Google’s ranking processes relies upon all webmasters or website owners having the same degree of access to information about Google’s ranking… This will no longer be the case if information of this kind is made available to some individuals offering commercial services to assist companies to improve their Search ranking.

Google is a criminal operation. It’s executives have been publicly exposed as participants in horrific sex scandals, money laundering, political bribery and racism. It is time for the bought and paid shill politicians to stop protecting them! – Google spies on competitors and steals their technology –

Google runs tens of millions of dollars of defamation attacks against competitors – Google hides all media and news coverage for competitors of Larry Page’s boyfriend: Elon Musk – Google lies to the public about what they really do with the public’s data – Google promotes illegal immigration in order to get cheap labor and control votes – Google runs VC funding back-lists against start-ups that are competitive – Google bribes thousands of politicians – Google is a criminal RICO-violating monopoly – Google rigs the stock market with Flash-boy, Pump/Dump and Microblast SEC violating computer tricks –

Google pays bribes to politicians in Google and YouTube stock – Google manipulates who gets to see what web-sites, globally, for competitor black-lists – Google has a “no poaching” Silicon Valley jobs blacklist – Google bosses sexually abuse women and young boys – Google bosses run sex trafficking operations in the Epstein and NXVIUM cults – Google bosses control the NVCA financing cartel over start-ups – Google has placed the majority of the corporate staff in at least one White House – Google controls national elections for anti-competitive purposes –

The company “Polyhop”, in the HOUSE OF CARDS tv show, does all the crimes that Google actually does in reality – Google’s law firms, like Wilson Sonsini, are corrupt conduits for payola and political conduit-relays – Google bribes some politicians with revolving door jobs – Google is primarily responsible for destroying the Bay Area Housing opportunities – Google runs DDoS attacks on competitors by massively crawling their sites – Google boss Andy Rubin runs a sex slave farm according to his own family – Google boss Eric Schmidt was a philandering sex-penthouse owner according to vast news articles –

Google executives hire so many hookers that one of them, Mr. Hayes, was killed by his hooker – Google executives sexually abuse so many women that the women staff of Google walked out one day – In the 2009 White House, you could not swing a cat without hitting a Google insider – Google has paid covert bribes, PAC funds, real estate and search rigging payola to every CA Senator – Google has paid bribes, through its lobby fronts, to halt FBI, SEC, FEC and FTC investigations of Google crimes – Google was funded by the CIA, via In-Q-Tel, a so called “501 c3 charity” which was caught with tons of cocaine – Google gets millions of dollars of taxpayer cash for spying on Americans inside the USA – Google’s map service was a spy system paid for by taxpayers money that Google now profits off of –

Nancy Pelosi and Dianne Feinstein have promised to “protect” Google because their families profit off Google stocks – Payment receipts prove that Google and Gawker/Gizmodo exchanged cash and staff for Character Assassination attacks – Google VC’s and bosses have spent $30M+ rigging the U.S. Patent Office to protect Google and harm Google competitors – Google bribed it’s lawyer into position as head of the U.S. Patent office in order to have her protect Google – To rig insider stock trades, Google hides negative Tesla stories and pumps positive Tesla stories on “push days” – Google and Elon Musk Co-own, co-invest and co-market stocks covertly while running anti-trust schemes –

Google rarely likes, or hires, black employees per federal and news media investigations – Google hired most of the Washington, DC K Street lobby firms and told them to “do what ever they could” – The film: “Miss Sloane” depicts only 2% of the illicit lobbying tactics Google employs daily – Demands for an FTC and FBI raid of Google, for criminal activity, securities law and election felonies have been filed – Google’s David Drummond had his Woodside, CA Quail Road house bugged revealing sex and financial misdeeds – Google, and it’s Cartel (Alphabet, Youtube, and hundreds of other shell-company facades) are a criminal organization engaged in felony-class crimes.

Google’s bosses bribe politicians, regulators and law enforcement officials to hold off prosecution. At Google: Kent Walker, Andy Rubin, Larry Page, Eric Schmidt, Sergy Brin, Jared Cohen, Yasmin Green, David Drummond and Ian Fette are so enmeshed in sex scandals, election manipulation, and White House bribes that it is hard to comprehend how they can get any legitimate work done. Google executives came from most of the fraternity houses involved in the college rape scandals. Google sells covert character assassination services to politicians and fellow oligarchs. Youtube/Google/Alphabet/Deep State are all the same entity. They conspire to hide news about their corruption and they control most of the internet.  See more at https://campaignforaccountability.org/campaign-for-accountability-launches-google-transparency-project/