{"id":24443,"date":"2017-08-08T09:14:34","date_gmt":"2017-08-08T13:14:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=24443"},"modified":"2017-08-08T09:14:34","modified_gmt":"2017-08-08T13:14:34","slug":"google-is-not-what-it-seems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2017\/08\/08\/google-is-not-what-it-seems\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Is Not What It Seems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>WikiLeaks<\/em> has an important article by Julian Assange &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/wikileaks.org\/google-is-not-what-it-seems\/\" target=\"_blank\">Google Is Not What It Seems<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nIf the future of the internet is to be Google, that should be of serious concern to people all over the world\u2014in Latin America, East and Southeast Asia, the Indian subcontinent, the Middle East, sub-Saharan Africa, the former Soviet Union, and even in Europe\u2014for whom the internet embodies the promise of an alternative to US cultural, economic, and strategic hegemony.71<\/p>\n<p>A \u201cdon\u2019t be evil\u201d empire is still an empire.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The details in this article provide what was for me an astounding revelation of how widespread and invasive are the tentacles of Google.<\/p>\n<p>Google&#8217;s political bias had already become apparent to me, but I had had no idea of these details.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WikiLeaks has an important article by Julian Assange &#8211; Google Is Not What It Seems. If the future of the internet is to be Google, that should be of serious concern to people all over the world\u2014in Latin America, East and Southeast Asia, the Indian subcontinent, the Middle East, sub-Saharan Africa, the former Soviet Union, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-stevegsposts","czr-hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24443"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24443\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24444,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24443\/revisions\/24444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}