DBWI no google scandal of 2012

In 2012 google was caught selling the private information of American service men and women to the Chinese government, they did this to get access to the Chinese market this in an of itself would be bad but they were also caught selling the personal information of other government military personal which included well honestly every country they operated in.

The scandal and its results changed the way the world did business and changed the word.

But what if google refused to do this or didn't get caught red handed how would that change the world?
 
First of all the board of executives of Google what are they have been tried for high treason. Secondly a lot of companies wouldn’t collapsed into bankruptcy when the government started to investigate the business world more harshly revealing massive fraud and embezzlement on a scale that is still being untangled today.
 
We probably wouldn't be having the same debate around nationalization of the tech industry that we are now having. True, no companies as of yet have been seized or purchased by the government, and even google itself has only really been subjected to a lot of heavy-handed regulation ostensibly aimed at the whole industry(but in practice aimed at google). But seven years later, the idea of state ownership of Silicon Valley is still widely promoted, as witnessed in the current presidential primary season.
 
Oh, and I have to say, those parody google-doodles that internet satirists made to mock the company's crimes were one of my guilty pleasures at the time. Wasn't too happy about the racist ones, though.
 
Plenty of other internet giants would still be here, too: the discovery that quite a lot of people in Silicon Valley were using technology to advance the authoritarian agendas of several governments more or less caused a second Dot-com bubble. On the other hand, decentralized and open source projects of all kinds would not be as widespread, and Tim Berners-Lee wouldn't have gotten a second shot at (re-)making the internet, either.

Alas, the attention given by the media to Dark Enlightenment and neo-reactionary figures like Mencius Moldbug gave them far too much publicity, and the PRC basically doubled down on their Black Mirror unpleasantness now that they don't have to be conduct business with dead US tech giants, too.
 
Plenty of other internet giants would still be here, too: the discovery that quite a lot of people in Silicon Valley were using technology to advance the authoritarian agendas of several governments more or less caused a second Dot-com bubble. On the other hand, decentralized and open source projects of all kinds would not be as widespread, and Tim Berners-Lee wouldn't have gotten a second shot at (re-)making the internet, either.

Alas, the attention given by the media to Dark Enlightenment and neo-reactionary figures like Mencius Moldbug gave them far too much publicity, and the PRC basically doubled down on their Black Mirror unpleasantness now that they don't have to be conduct business with dead US tech giants, too.

Yeah? But those neo-reactionary figures then got exposed to all the suspected connections to neo-Nazi groups and whatnot, so that exposure screwed them over in the long run.

Same with government figures who were wanting to purchase said data for surveillance


Plus, the PRC actually lost influence since without said business, it’s harder for them to ensure their warped view.
 
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