Wednesday, September 12, 2018

The Closing Frontier

John Hinderaker of Power Line has leaked video of the top brass at Google in the days after Trump won the presidency.
[It's] an “all hands” Google meeting that was held just after the 2016 election. The video features Google’s co-founder, Sergei Brin, its CEO, Sundar Pichai, and numerous other high-ranking “Googlers” speaking in turn about the election’s tragic outcome. It is stunning.

All of the speakers express grief over Donald Trump’s election. All of the speakers assume that every Google employee is a Democrat and is stunned and horrified that Hillary Clinton–the worst and most corrupt presidential candidate in modern history–lost. There is much discussion about what Google can do to reverse the benighted world-wide tide exemplified by Brexit and Trump’s election.
Okay, that makes it official. The Wild West era of 'Silly Con' Valley must end. It's time to regulate lefty social media firms as public utilities.

Social media firms need government oversight boards, required-by-law even-handedness, and the whole dreary nine yards. They've no more right to intervene sub rosa in our politics than do Russian hackers.