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Relevant: How The CIA made Google (2015) https://medium.com/insurge-intelligence/how-the-cia-made-google-e83645… Is Google honestly acting following economic interests? Is it to avoid liability from hosting damaging content? Is it acting to protect us? Google, which isn't event the most valuable company in the world, is worth above all but - give or take - the top 36 countries in the world. A company of this size wields immense power while simultaneously remaining unhampered by all the dead weight governments have to haul around to get anything done. [edit: switched link to original]

Compartmentalize and abstract, keep telling yourself that "if I don't do it, someone else will do it (and they might do it worse than me so it's really best if I do it first)". https://medium.com/insurge-intelligence/the-pentagon-is-building-a-sel… I know the above sounds kinda hyperbolic, but there is a lot of substantiated stuff in there that doesn't need much extrapolation to have the potential to go reeeeeally bad at, well, the flip of a switch, political or otherwise.

> But really Google is so much worse than the NSA Google is one of the many tentacles of the NSA. Worth reading 'How the CIA made Google': https://medium.com/insurge-intelligence/how-the-cia-made-google-e83645… Also noteworthy: 'DARPA director Regina Dugan takes job as Google senior executive': http://articles.latimes.com/2012/mar/13/business/la-fi-tn-from-darpa-t…

Commercial banking, together with the Intellectual Property system, is one of the greatest Rentier swindles of all time. We are literally renting the money we use, for extortionate prices [1]. "The dollar as a reserve currency transfers wealth from the rest of world to the USA One final way in which money works today that has a substantial effect on the workings of the global political economy is the use of the US dollar as the international reserve currency. This follows the decision of the OPEC countries shortly after the end of the Second World War to accept only dollars for their oil. Today, the dollar is used for trade in many other commodities. This acts as a huge subsidy to the US economy, since countries elsewhere in the world sell goods and services to the US, but instead of buying back from US companies, they keep the dollars so as to be able to trade among themselves — as well as to be able to protect their currencies from speculative attack. This effective transfer of wealth from the rest of the world to the US permits the US to be easily the world’s largest debtor nation, while driving the unprecedented widening of wealth disparity within the global community (Douthwaite, 1999)." [2] [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZzCegQVljdY [2] https://medium.com/insurge-intelligence/impacts-of-our-current-money-s…

Highly recommend the book National Security Cinema by Tom Secker and Matthew Alfred. They trawled through FOI documents to uncover a lengthy history of US intelligence agencies having holywood scripts changed to suit their needs. > the US government has worked behind the scenes on over 800 major movies and more than 1,000 TV titles. > Vietnam is evidently another sore topic for the US military, which also removed a reference to the war from the screenplay for Hulk (2003) > It seems that any reference to military suicide — even an off-hand remark in a superhero action-comedy adventure — is something the DOD’s Hollywood office will not allow. > If there are characters, action or dialogue that the DOD don’t approve of then the film-maker has to make changes to accommodate the military’s demands. If they refuse then the Pentagon packs up its toys and goes home. To obtain full cooperation the producers have to sign contracts — Production Assistance Agreements — which lock them into using a military-approved version of the script. > Strangely, Phil Strub denied that there was any support for Tomorrow Never Dies. But the DOD are credited at the end of the film and we obtained a copy of the Production Assistance Agreement between the producers and the Pentagon. > changing the code name of the military operation to capture the Hulk from ‘Ranch Hand’ to ‘Angry Man’. ‘Ranch Hand’ is the name of a real military operation that saw the US Air Force dump millions of gallons of…

I often wonder if national intelligence interests are behind or have taken control of major corporate players like Microsoft, Google and Apple. There was an article [0] back in 2015 that brought forth the proposition that google was created by the CIA. It would explain the current enshitification of these companies and the lengths they are going to take away choice. [0]: https://medium.com/insurge-intelligence/how-the-cia-made-google-e83645…

Google raised money under the motto of: >Digital Library, “birds of a feather” identified inside sea of information so communities and groups could be tracked in an organized way "Highlands Forum", DLI (NSF, NASA and DARPA), MDDS program, In-Q-Tel etc https://medium.com/insurge-intelligence/how-the-cia-made-google-e83645…

Another point of view: https://medium.com/insurge-intelligence/how-the-cia-made-google-e83645… https://medium.com/insurge-intelligence/why-google-made-the-nsa-2a8058… (I don't know how truthful these articles are, but found them interesting to read.)

My opinion is that google only ever presented as a new type of company - without ever being that. It was marketing spin - and I bought into that. I since found out it was funded from inception by inqtel, the CIA's venture capital arm. There are lots of articles to this effect, eg: https://medium.com/insurge-intelligence/how-the-cia-made-google-e83645… So, the hype, the free canteen, etc was all just spin to move people from a more messy handmade internet, into a corporate one. A way to dominate and intercept everyone's actions online when searching. And you have to say, it was a good strategy! Do the younger generation even know that there are pages outside of the corporate held companies?

Not just "a little"... A LOT A good primer on the topic for the interested https://medium.com/insurge-intelligence/how-the-cia-made-google-e83645…

>Google Maps Google Maps started off as KeyHole, a technology company that was funded by In-Q-Tel aka the VC arm of the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), it was acquired by Google. https://www.iqt.org/news/in-q-tel-announces-strategic-investment-in-ke… https://medium.com/insurge-intelligence/how-the-cia-made-google-e83645…

They do, but just don't know about it. https://medium.com/insurge-intelligence/how-the-cia-made-google-e83645… Similarly, DARPA LifeLog -> FB.

Well I have encountered this article a while ago - "How CIA made Google": https://medium.com/insurge-intelligence/how-the-cia-made-google-e83645… From this perspective, youtube blocking CIA criticizing video seems like something completely normal.

Perhaps the detractors in this thread could comment on this: https://medium.com/insurge-intelligence/how-the-cia-made-google-e83645…

https://medium.com/insurge-intelligence/how-the-cia-made-google-e83645… Both Facebook and Google were nurtured by In-Q-Tel and Highlands Forum members. I don't think this is wrong or bad. Just like Huawei and ZTE are highly correlated with the Chinese government, our biggest tech companies are interwoven with our national defense organizations.

"How the CIA made Google" https://medium.com/insurge-intelligence/how-the-cia-made-google-e83645…

SOrry didn't the CIA funded Google and Facebook? Who do segmenting of people, face recognition and more? https://medium.com/insurge-intelligence/how-the-cia-made-google-e83645…

Try not to think about how much tax money the military spends to ensure that it is portrayed in a very specific manner in mass media such as television, movies, and sporting events. https://medium.com/insurge-intelligence/exclusive-documents-expose-dir…

https://medium.com/insurge-intelligence/how-the-cia-made-google-e83645… https://pando.com/2015/07/01/cia-foia-google-keyhole/ Search "In-Q-Tel Google" for more.

You know, I used to think times like this when us conspiracy theorists could say "I told you so" would make people rethink some things, but that has proven to be false. I was ranting about NSA and other unconstitutional abuses before Snowden and was getting called "crazy", and then after Snowden the majority of comments around here became variations of "Well, are you surprised." and "If you have nothing to hide" and "Broken clocks are right twice a day"... Google, like facebook, was from origins designed to end up this way. It was not some organic complication of motives due to massive growth. Relevant reading: https://medium.com/insurge-intelligence/how-the-cia-made-google-e83645…

You mean like the Pentagon has been doing for decades? https://medium.com/insurge-intelligence/exclusive-documents-expose-dir… I wasn't quite aware of this myself until a few years ago. Now I see it in almost every crime/spy/military-related show or movie. I've stopped watching several shows because of it and never started watching others.

America is much better about this sort of thing. Aside from a few obvious holdover examples like the Pledge of Allegiance and the national anthem, the US doesn't bother with such ham-handed, last century techniques. It's much easier to just coerce the media and get the public to consume the propaganda as entertainment. http://articles.latimes.com/2011/aug/21/entertainment/la-ca-military-m… https://medium.com/insurge-intelligence/exclusive-documents-expose-dir…

You're calling out RT for being state-run, but some of ours are almost just as bad. They just convinced you they aren't(1,2). And what you're suggesting is that Twitter take sides in this, support US propoganda and suppress others... How is this different than RT? Some are starting to talk about some of our mainstream journalists as belonging in a "special kind of journalistic hell(3)." 1-https://theintercept.com/2016/09/18/washpost-makes-history-first-paper… 2-https://medium.com/insurge-intelligence/exclusive-documents-expose-dir… 3-https://www.salon.com/2016/09/20/betraying-snowden-theres-a-special-pl…

> Because of our physical and virtual presence around the world, Cloudflare is uniquely positioned to rebuild the core of the Internet. Every customer we bring on increases the size of our [surveillance] network. Google was founded by CIA[1]. There’s no way Cloudflare isn’t. [1] https://medium.com/insurge-intelligence/how-the-cia-made-google-e83645…

> reading the news with annoying ads, or not reading the news? False dichotomy. Firstly, ads don't have to be annoying. Secondly, news doesn't have to be financed by ads. There are lots of smaller and independent news sources that don't rely on ads for funding. The news organisation linked to in the article is a case in point. They make their money from donations. Another one is insurge intelligence (https://medium.com/insurge-intelligence) which uses crowdfunding. Then there is also citizen media and blogs.

Google is a very low-profile, high-importance contractor for the US Federal government, specifically for the intelligence agencies. It's kind of startling how little even HN readers know about this. https://medium.com/insurge-intelligence/how-the-cia-made-google-e83645… https://medium.com/insurge-intelligence/why-google-made-the-nsa-2a8058… https://wikileaks.org/google-is-not-what-it-seems/ I find it very difficult to believe that US Federal Contracts have not swayed their levels of cooperation at the highest level.

This article pretty much sums it up: https://medium.com/insurge-intelligence/how-the-cia-made-google-e83645… I wouldnt work there even if I was smart enough to do so, for moral reasons.

I wouldn't hold my breath on this one. https://medium.com/insurge-intelligence/how-the-cia-made-google-e83645…

The terrorist ends wherever a threat to the state's power exists, it's been shown quite well that they don't care if you're domestic or not. This, IMO, is why "self-radicalized" and "domestic terrorist" were injected into our vernacular, to normalize and justify the need to surveil the general public. The thing is, and like I mentioned in a post awhile back: technically competent actors, the ones bound to cause the most harm, would absolutely be using a bespoke method of covert communication. There's really little value, IMO, to the countrywide dragnet outside of sentiment analysis and control. The military complex wove itself early into the tech industry in ways that they could intentionally side-step laws meant to keep such public/private collusion from happening[0]. The impetus for the founding of the collaboration was a report on the importance in controlling perception in future wars. We saw the same strategy deployed directly against the American people during the election "fortification" where DHS and social media colluded to control perception with little regard for truth[1]. [0] https://medium.com/insurge-intelligence/how-the-cia-made-google-e83645… [1] https://homeland.house.gov/2023/11/06/chairmen-green-bishop-uncover-ne…

> Google Photos is NOT Google Drive > ... > ... I think that this is a lazy design. ... No, it's absolutely deliberate. My take (not sure why nobody else is saying this): Google is contractually required to not inspect or analyze the _private_ data it stores beyond technical purposes such as deduplication. - Google Drive is used for corporate environments where privacy is the be-all end-all. Can't really do anything there. - But by using UX antipatterns to get away with making Photos public by default, Google can say "well the photo was publicly accessible so we've ...". Hmm. I wonder what the legal ramifications are of making a photo private. Does that constitute a licensing change on the part of the copyright holder (you)? Can Google argue _for_ holding on to "the copy of the photo that was public"? (Yes there's no bit difference but the legal flavor is different.) If that's the case, that could explain why everything's public by default; just grab a copy of the photo before the user makes it private a second later. Remember how the Pixel has unlimited online Photos storage? This is clearly a tracking move. I was reading about how YouTube analyzes the content of videos (AI content recognition), etc. If Google has the infra to analyze _video_ they can easily do images. Related: https://medium.com/insurge-intelligence/how-the-cia-made-google-e83645… (REALLY long - I started going crosseyed ~60% through - but probably the most relevant thing you'll find all…