Why You Suddenly Need To Delete Google Chrome

[byronius]

36. I've read that Duck Duck Go is Chinese-owned.

And upthread -- Forbes. It would make sense that they'd push this hard.

Right-wingers use Duck Duck Go because it theoretically doesn't track your surfing. But that's the big trap, right? Appeal to the paranoid, pull them into a 'safe' space and then do exactly what the article accuses Google of doing. I don't trust the Chinese to be concerned about my privacy -- or any profit-seeking entity full of sociopaths on the board. It's all a swamp.

I don't know, man. It's a choice the way gas stations are a choice, or telecom providers are a choice -- without serious government regulation, the lowest common denominator rules. Corporatacracy reigns. And corporations don't have a moral compass whatsoever -- if child labor was legal in the US, 89% of US corporations would use child labor. Comcast probably has white papers for this eventuality. In fact, Comcast probably does it already -- there's a perfect example of an insane, ruthless, inhumane beast lunging at the already-weakened rusty bars of convention.

It's not about which corporation to trust. It's about how we deal with our emerging Rollerball culture.

#1 -- all money out of politics. Publically financed elections are a start. Hand counted paper ballots and rigorous devotion to democratic principles -- i.e. forbid gerrymandering, caging and hostile foreign-owned media posing as patriots.

Until then -- expect every major player to play dirty.