From Gulag to Google
Friday, December 11, 2020 @ 7:48 AM
It is true that Google is not imprisoning dissenters in a vast network of prison camps, similar to what Alexander Solzhenitsyn described in
The Gulag Archipelago. But there is a good reason that retired NYU professor Michael Rectenwald titled his 2019 book
Google Archipelago: The Digital Gulag and the Simulation of Freedom. The powerful reach of the social media giants is frightening. It is with little exaggeration that the owners of Google (which includes YouTube) and Facebook and Twitter are called “the masters of the universe.” Their domination must be challenged – while it can be.