{"id":49709,"date":"2019-11-19T08:00:05","date_gmt":"2019-11-19T13:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=49709"},"modified":"2019-11-19T08:00:08","modified_gmt":"2019-11-19T13:00:08","slug":"the-rise-of-tech-totalitarianism-michael-rectenwalds-google-archipelago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=49709","title":{"rendered":"The Rise of Tech Totalitarianism Michael Rectenwald\u2019s GOOGLE ARCHIPELAGO"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Rise of Tech Totalitarianism Michael Rectenwald\u2019s GOOGLE ARCHIPELAGO <\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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The\u00a0Wall Street Journal<\/em>\u00a0just published a shocking expose,\u00a0How Google Interferes With Its Search Algorithms and Changes Your Results<\/em><\/a>, [by Kirsten Grind, Sam Schechner, Robert McMillan and John West\u00a0,\u00a0<\/em>November 15, 2019], revealing not only that Google is\u00a0exploiting its market power<\/a>\u00a0in ways the clearly raise anti-trust questions, but also that it\u00a0shadow-bans sites<\/a>\u00a0that promote \u201chate or violence\u201d even if \u201cexpressed in polite or even academic-sounding language\u201d\u2014i.e. VDARE.com and all immigration patriots. This confirms the terrifying message of\u00a0Michael Rectenwald\u2019<\/a>s new book\u00a0\u00a0Google Archipelago: The Digital Gulag and the Simulation of Freedom<\/a><\/em>: the combination of\u00a0Woke Capital<\/a>\u00a0and monopoly power is turning America into an\u00a0open-air prison.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rectenwald is a liberal academic who was chased out of New York University for dissenting mildly from the \u201cpronoun wars<\/a>\u201d and the Leftist demand for blanket approval<\/a> of transgenderism [I was a liberal NY prof, but when I said the left was going too far, colleagues called be a NAZI & treated me like a RUSSIAN SPY<\/em><\/a>, RT, <\/em>November 12, 2019]. In his book, he shows the Left is consumed by collective hysteria<\/a>, a theme with which VDARE.com readers are familiar, and also that the ideology of \u201cCorporate Socialism\u201d and the emerging \u201cInternet of Things\u201d<\/a> is making it impossible to escape from a repressive system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rectenwald lays out several terms that encapsulate his ideas\u2014the eponymous Google Archipelago, Big Digital,<\/a> Corporate Socialism, Google Marxism, etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n