We the People vs. Google
Channel: PolitiChrist
Date: 2017-08-30

Re:  Blonde in the Belly of the Beast: Don't Be Evil | Oh Really Google?
Blondes video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IwggrnlyYGo&t=157s

I have to say first that I enjoy the videos Blonde puts together and believed the comment I would leave would get pretty long; so, decided to make a video repsonse instead.  Lets get into it.  I have to agree that we could see this coming.  When the slogan from google, Don't Be Evil came out, I looked at my now husband and said, "yeah right".  You can see this coming from a mile away.  The terms of service to use all their products allow the gathering of said information for the use of that information as they see fit.  I agree with what you said, we all checked yes for free stuff.    This is rampant everywhere and even existed before the internet.  Operation Shamrock is a great example: after World War II, the US saw its first national surveillance program, called Operation Shamrock. It was designed to catch Soviet spies, and was run by the NSA when it was established in 1952. Every day, usually around midnight, the nation's telegraph traffic was collected from corporate offices in New York, in the form of punch cards, and couriered over to the NSA office for copying and then returned. The program was shut down when it was exposed in the 1970s.  This is what all governments in some form have done from Pinkertons to the present day.  A personal example was my first visit to the Gynocologist, wherein I read the fine print which said any and all tissue gathered would be stored and used for experimentation.  When I asked what this meant, the dr there told me it meant they would collect tissue during my examination and use it for whatever experimental purposes that they thought would be prudent(not just what I needed).  She said it would further the research going on in the field.  I did not stay with that dr.  All companies from this large tech giant to your grocery store gather and store preference information on you.  What makes a difference is you.  Your conclusion that Google should come under the governmental control as a utility I believe is flawed because it's just handing it over to people who think the same way.  As we've seen throughout history governments do not make things better, people do.  In both my examples it was the individuals involved that changed things.  I would respectfully suggest that the people are the answer to this problem.  Move away from using the products and what happened to the phone book, will happen to them as well.

History of Government surveillance through companies: https://www.americanbar.org/content/dam/aba/administrative/litigation/materials/sac_2012/29-1_history_and_law_of_wiretapping.authcheckdam.pdf
Operation Shamrock:
https://www.pri.org/stories/2013-11-07/history-electronic-surveillance-abraham-lincolns-wiretaps-operation-shamrock

http://www.encyclopedia.com/politics/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/operation-shamrock