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The issue if you will, is that Google is moving from publishing a variety of perspectives to a single "true" one.

And furthermore the perspective that is crowned the true one, is based on whatever is politically convenient for Google.

If people loudly and angrily demand that Google show a lie as truth, then you will now be in position where Google will only show the lie without any questioning or contrary perspectives.

As the lie becomes established, so policy will made based on it. And it will be very deficient policy. And it will lead to disaster. Afterwards, people will ask? How come no one saw this coming? How come no one raised any objections?

Did you know that during the communist mass starvation, there was a lot of false propaganda about how well big the harvests were. People looking to ingratiate themselves with the elite lied about how well everything was going and flattered the elite with how great their their wisdom was.

They were surrounded by yes men who created a filter bubble. The distorted vision of that was catastrophical. Tens of millions dead.




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