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Donald Trump says Google ‘has to be careful’ or it will be ‘shut down’
“Google has been very bad, they’ve been very irresponsible.”
And Thiel-funded Trump running mate JD Vance has appeared at antitrust conferences praising Biden FTC Chair Lina Khan, saying she was “doing a pretty good job,” and openly supporting breaking up the big platform companies. In fact, Vance thinks Google’s search results are a bigger threat to democracy than, say, mass deportations, or forcing women to have birth. In what is now classic ham-fisted Vance fashion, he was far more reckless with these ideas in proximity to the safe space of right-wing influencer media, responding to the baseless claim that “Google is rigging the election” by tweeting that breaking up the company is “long overdue” because “monopolistic control of information in our society resides with an explicitly progressive technology company.”
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