Google’s Threat To Democracy.

It turns out, Google is evil.

John Iovine
9 min readJun 15, 2020

Google Search Engine Bias

Like social media platforms, search engine giant Google is biased. Books can be written documenting individual cases of Google bias. I will only look at the two I feel have the greatest impact on our democracy. I am not being hyperbolic; Google is that big of the threat.

“The Good Censor”

This is an 85-page playbook created by Google that was leaked to Breitbart News in 2018. The playbook details how the idea of free speech on the internet is in Google’s viewpoint a Utopian ideal. It is also Google’s view that this Utopian ideal cannot be maintained on the internet due in part because of “bad behavior” on the part of the populace, which included electing Donald Trump president of the United States. You can read Google’s full 85 page “The Good Censor” briefing for yourself on Breitbart.com. https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2018/10/09/the-good-censor-leaked-google-briefing-admits-abandonment-of-free-speech-for-safety-and-civility/

Google Goes to War

After Trump was elected president, a one-hour video was leaked from Google, where Google’s top executives complained that Trump’s election was a disaster and that they (Google) were never going to let this…

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John Iovine

Science writer, thinker, self-experimenter, focusing on personal development and health — www.john-iovine.com