{"id":373327,"date":"2018-08-14T13:19:08","date_gmt":"2018-08-14T12:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/is-google-better-than-the-us-military\/"},"modified":"2018-08-14T13:19:08","modified_gmt":"2018-08-14T12:19:08","slug":"is-google-better-than-the-us-military","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/is-google-better-than-the-us-military\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Google Better than the US Military?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t                            \t<!-- S3 Cache --><!-- S3:S3:Original -->\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGoogle should be ashamed,\u201d says <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aei.org\/publication\/does-google-think-its-better-than-the-u-s-military\/\">Marc Thiessen<\/a>, the former chief speechwriter for George WMD Bush who is a \u201cis a resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) where he studies and writes about American presidential leadership and counterterrorism\u201d and \u201cwrites about general US foreign and defense policy issues and contributes to the AEIdeas blog.\u201d He also writes a twice-weekly column for the <em>Washington Post<\/em> \u201con foreign and domestic policy and contributes to the PostPartisan blog,\u201d where his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/does-google-think-its-better-than-the-us-military\/2018\/06\/06\/566c3a18-68d9-11e8-bea7-c8eb28bc52b1_story.html\">article<\/a> referenced in my title was initially published before it was posted on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aei.org\/\">AEI<\/a> website, a site I frequent because it often has good material.<\/p>\n<p>Not this time. In fact, not any time the subjects of the U.S. military or U.S. foreign policy are addressed.<\/p>\n<p>And why should Google be ashamed?<\/p>\n<p>Not because <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lewrockwell.com\/2018\/04\/joseph-mercola\/what-do-google-and-facebook-have-on-you\/\">Google<\/a>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>keeps tabs on everything you\u2019ve ever searched for, on any device, including search histories you\u2019ve deleted from an individual device.<\/li>\n<li>knows which apps you\u2019re using, how often, when, where and with whom you\u2019re interacting when you do<\/li>\n<li>keeps tabs on every single YouTube video you\u2019ve ever searched for, watched and commented on.<\/li>\n<li>has the ability to access your microphone without your knowledge.<\/li>\n<li>has maintained an intimate relationship with the National Security Agency (NSA) for a number of years.<\/li>\n<li>has every single email you\u2019ve ever sent, received and deleted.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>No, Google should be ashamed because:<span class=\"amazon-element-wrapper-custom align-right\"><br \/>\n<span class=\"amazon-element-med-image\"><span class=\"amazon-image-wrapper\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Free-Society-Laurence-M-Vance\/dp\/0996786937?SubscriptionId=AKIAI63WS3YGA3Y5U2QA&amp;tag=lrc18-20&amp;linkCode=xm2&amp;camp=2025&amp;creative=165953&amp;creativeASIN=0996786937\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/516BfURFutL.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"amazon-image amazon-image-medium\"\/><\/a><\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"amazon-element-title\"><span class=\"appip-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Free-Society-Laurence-M-Vance\/dp\/0996786937?SubscriptionId=AKIAI63WS3YGA3Y5U2QA&amp;tag=lrc18-20&amp;linkCode=xm2&amp;camp=2025&amp;creative=165953&amp;creativeASIN=0996786937\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">The Free Society<\/a><\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"amazon-element-author\">Laurence M. Vance<\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"amazon-element-lowest-used\"><span class=\"appip-lowest-used\"><span class=\"appip-label label-lowest-used\">Best Price: <\/span>$899.99<\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"amazon-element-formatted-price\"><span class=\"appip-formatted-price\"><span class=\"appip-label label-formatted-price\">Buy New <\/span>$19.95<\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"amazon-element-disclaimer-new\"><span style=\"display:block;color:#888;font-size: .80em; padding: 0 0 3px 0;\">(as of 06:50 EDT &#8211; <span style=\"cursor:pointer;\" title=\"Product prices and availability are accurate as of the date\/time indicated and are subject to change. Any price and availability information displayed on Amazon.com at the time of purchase will apply to the purchase of this product.\">Details<\/span>)<\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"amazon-element-button\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/aws\/cart\/add.html?AssociateTag=lrc18-20&amp;SubscriptionId=AKIAI63WS3YGA3Y5U2QA&amp;ASIN.1=0996786937&amp;Quantity.1=1\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lewrockwell.com\/wp-content\/mu-plugins\/amazon-ad-link-lr\/img\/buy-from-tan.gif\" border=\"0\"\/><\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Giving in to pressure from its workforce, Google recently announced that it is pulling out of Project Maven, a groundbreaking Pentagon program to harness artificial intelligence to sift through and interpret video&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lewrockwell.com\/2018\/08\/laurence-m-vance\/is-google-better-than-the-u-s-military\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cGoogle should be ashamed,\u201d says Marc Thiessen, the former chief speechwriter for George WMD Bush who is a \u201cis a resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) where he studies and writes about American presidential leadership and counterterrorism\u201d and \u201cwrites about general US foreign and defense policy issues and contributes to the AEIdeas blog.\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-373327","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=373327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373327\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=373327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=373327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=373327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}