среда, 19. октобар 2022.

Google Archipelago,The Digital Gulag and the Simulation of Freedom - Dr. Michael Rectenwald [Epub, PDF]

Dr. Michael Rectenwald is the author of eleven books, including Thought Criminal (2020), Beyond Woke (2020), Google Archipelago: The Digital Gulag and the Simulation of Freedom (2019), Springtime for Snowflakes: “Social Justice” and Its Postmodern Parentage (an academic’s memoir, 2018) and others. He is also the Chief Academic Officer and co-founder of American Scholars, which YouTube’s channel was recently banned. He was a Professor of Liberal Studies and Global Liberal Studies at NYU from 2008 to 2019. He has appeared on numerous major network political talk shows, among which Tucker Carlson Tonight, Fox & Friends, Fox & Friends First, Varney & Company, The Glenn Beck Show as well as on syndicated radio shows, such as Coast to Coast AM, and on The Epoch Times’ American Thought Leaders, among numerous podcasts and online shows.
 
Quotes from the book:
A Google internal document obtained by Project Veritas reveals Google’s overriding of factual information to arrive at politically correct search results.
Corporate socialism is an economic and political system under which a corporate monopoly or set of monopolies rather than a socialist state monopoly eliminates competition and controls all production...
...Anthony C. Sutton writes: “The difference between a corporate state monopoly and a socialist state monopoly is essentially only the identity of the group controlling the power structure.”...
...From 1917 until roughly 1925, several top U.S., British, and German capitalists and bankers angled to operate monopolies within the emerging socialist state, to establish corporate socialism in collaboration with the official state socialism of the U.S.S.R. Several Soviet agents were happy to oblige. Meanwhile, ordinary Soviet citizens were barred from having any stake in the means of production, or, for the most part, in the banking industry. The corporate socialist monopolists exploiting the U.S.S.R. were successful at first, especially in pillaging Soviet natural resources, some gaining concessions in the form of exclusive mining of precious metals, forestry, oil extraction, and other land rights....
As Richard B. Spence boldly declares in Wall Street and the Russian Revolution... 1905-1925, the term “socialist-capitalist” is not an oxymoron.3...
...The real opposites are not capitalism and socialism but rather individual freedom and free markets versus centralized economic and political control, whether administered by socialist states or corporate socialists.
As The People Who Know Everything, Google and YouTube must have a good reason for their exclusive policing of “rightwing extremism.” It is likely one of its many tactics for building a massified constituency. YouTube’s blogs and policies about eliminating “hate speech,” for example, practically equate all hate speech with expressions of “supremacy.”32 While this may suggest a blissful ignorance of history—that four times as many innocent people have been killed in the name of “equality” than in the name of “supremacy”—one shouldn’t discount the digital giants’ omniscience. Certainly, the YouTube and Google hive mind knows....
What is accomplished by such whitewashing of leftism? In addition to producing and cementing its digital hive-minded collectives, by disappearing leftist criminality, Big Digital eludes criticism of its own authoritarian leftism...
...Big Digital’s leftism has provided a mantle of virtue (transparent to some) to mask its dictatorial practices.
Piggy-backing on democratic socialism, corporate socialism obscures its own two-tiered class structure. An emphasis on “equality” (or “diversity, equity, and inclusion”), and concurrently, an incessant harping on “difference,” produces a dissonance and deflects attention from the disparity in status and wealth between the corporatists and the rest. Equality only applies horizontally, to those in the second tier. Those in the top tier do not need “equality.
Thus, the agents of the Google Archipelago have had it both ways; while operating as a set of private, for-profit information and communications enterprises, they have simultaneously performed many functions typically reserved for the government. That is, the Google Archipelago is a commercial assemblage that acts increasingly like a state.
Finally, the agents of the Google Archipelago have acted like referees of a game in which they are also players, taking sides in political contests and the culture wars. The Google Archipelago exhibits blatant double standards, egregious bias, politically-motivated designations of “fake news,” and tilted search engine algorithms. Clearly, the authoritarian leftism of the Google Archipelago has informed these conditions.



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