Trump= 2A threat.

[Skip]

Wouldn't do anything to Zuckerberg's financial situation. Xcel still gets to make a profit.

Google and all the others will still get to make money, even if they were turned into a government allowed/protected monopoly on the internet.

Sigh. Why are you crushing my collectivist dreams?

The Bell approach would break YT from Google and give YT it's own board that would have to be independent. If those officers in anyway colluded with Google to sensor free speech it would be a criminal offense. Doesn't FB own IG? Same approach.

Ultimately we need freedom focused platforms and now the have the precedent to censor speech we don't like even if it violates our mission statement ("town square").

[Grant H.]

Sigh. Why are you crushing my collectivist dreams?

The Bell approach would break YT from Google and give YT it's own board that would have to be independent. If those officers in anyway colluded with Google to sensor free speech it would be a criminal offense. Doesn't FB own IG? Same approach.

Ultimately we need freedom focused platforms and now the have the precedent to censor speech we don't like even if it violates our mission statement ("town square").

LOL... Sorry, wasn't exactly picking up the direction you were going.

Agreed.

[Irving]

Has there been a "How to Leave Google" published anywhere online? I've never had any email address but a gmail address, so all of my businesses, contacts, and other stuff is tied to them. If I were to switch to a new email address, browser, search engine, etc, I wouldn't know how to save all my info. A lot of people don't do things because it's easier to just stay.

[Gman]

With Google you have to pick your poison. They seem to know everything about everyone (too much), but then I've never found a better search engine that integrates into almost everything.

[Irving]

Oh agreed, I wish this topic weren't even on the table. Something I wanted to throw out there (always have an exit strategy), but I don't know if it will be necessary at this point.

[MrPrena]

I try to use yahoo until idiot Marissa mayer came to yahoo. I cannot stand her business decision. One female executive worse than her is sheryl sandberg.

Going back, I will use google, buy I refuse to click on top "ad" link.
I will scroll few lines down and click on same Web page without "ad"

[Irving]

I've been guilty of that as well.

[Aloha_Shooter]

What part of rope-a-dope don't you understand? I think Trump understands trying to stand like an oak in the current situation loses us the leverage and folks in the middle. Bending a little like the willow enables us to snap back as we did after the Clinton AWB. Wear them out with negotiating the "right" mix instead of just saying "no" and getting steamrolled again. Remember, a large chunk of the middle ground (which we need) is being fed pablum and lies by the regressive Stalinists/Maoists who control most of the print media, most of TV, Hollywood, and the music industry and they simply aren't listening to "shall not be infringed".

[ben4372]

I try to use yahoo until idiot Marissa mayer came to yahoo. I cannot stand her business decision. One female executive worse than her is sheryl sandberg.

Going back, I will use google, buy I refuse to click on top "ad" link.
I will scroll few lines down and click on same Web page without "ad"

Clicking one of the top ads is something everyone should think about. I talked at length with a guy that uses Google ads and I was amazed at how much they cost the companies. He was paying 20 bucks for some of his clicks. Some were 10 cents. Based on their demand pricing. I don't click ads unless its a super company that I dont like.

[Ridge]

I knew to not trust Trump on guns.

He only went as a Republican for the money in campaigns. Even if he WAS an actual Republican, he's still a Manhattan born and bread Republican, which is still liberal.

People should have known better than to think he'd expand gun rights.