I legitimately enjoy wikipedia, scihub, and twitter. stack overflow is useful but nonessential. most of the rest disposable
perhaps I misunderstood, I took your meaning to be that people depend necessarily on the constellation of google services
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whereas I am arguing in most cases the dependence is merely incidental
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yeah my intent was to explain why, bc of the ad market (google's real biz; the rest is all just chaff for antitrust investigators & laymen)…
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…that even people like you and me are wayyyy more dependent on google for the existence of our daily world, than you might think
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and that their willingness to censor things (see article at TPM) inadvertently affects even people like us, as it distorts the info market
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or, see also that day or so when
@jordanbpeterson was locked out of all of his google services for "violating TOS" including his email -
he angered the censorship gods on youtube, and the result was all his emails for a decade+ were gone, and they denied his appeal as well
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so the long tail of risk here is similar to, what are the odds i'm shot by a cop in mistake? low. but i have zero control over if it happens
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so the fact that cops are shooting people by mistake wayyy too often, is disturbing, and makes me wary of cops, even if the odds are "low"
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