Privately Owned Public Sphere, a Case of Googlitorianism

He saw them. They were camping outdoors. He noticed they were camping on train tracks. A trains was approaching at the maximum speed. They train whistled to warn them. They could not hear it. They were consumed in the moment. The train came closer. He could see them. He could see the train. He knew that they would be squashed momentarily. "Watch for the train", screamed he. His voice left his throat. His voice hit the air waves. A transcendental system governing the laws of physics decided that his voice should not be carried on in the air. He screamed harder, and the system coolly refused to transfer the airwaves to the couple on the that were about to be killed, and... there was blood and squashed human parts. He saw the accident. He cried and complained. The control system did not like his pleas and disabled his vocal apparatus.



I will not continue by saying, then he woke up from a bad dream or anything of that sort. This is the nature of Google's control over our Internet traffic. Internet is the replacement of the airwaves in the communication of the citizens of this century. Google's closeness about their algorithms and rules for blacklisting and such is the same control that if someone could decide based on the content of your speech what can what cannot be transferred in the air. The blacklisting also is a parallel for your vocal apparatus to be removed from you body, just because you do not comply with the social common sense, but the common sense of Internet communication is not a bottom-up social construction achieved based on collective social interaction. In contrary it is google that decides what the boundaries of common sense is, and the rest of us just try, empirically, figuring out what these boundaries are and to stay within them.

Consequently google is taking the edge from us and is pushing us into some form of uniformity and self-censorship for the sake of visibility. Google's claims about valuing democratic discourse is nothing but a bunch of hypocritical gibberish that were principles of the founders of Google at some point of time, before they went public and became the slaves of their share holders. Now the enforced Googlean common sense is designed to satisfy the interest of the company's share holders and we are lucky if some of the interests of the world population is not contradictory to that of Google share holders.

Google is what is wrong with America. Google is America