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WashingtonPost.com's Brian Fung asked the question: Is Goo-Goo-Goo and Bacefook too powerful?
Short answer: Yes.
Long answer: But, why?
When seeking growth, many businesses set market share goals. For instance, let's say you have four manufacturers of Class 8 trucks (long haul tractors that pull loaded trailers).
Four dealerships in a city represent one each of different manufacturers.
Each dealer and manufacturer know how many trucks sold last year within their market reach or are on order for the coming five years within that same area. But the orders are not enough to keep the plants running and people employed, nor are they enough to satisfy investors' expectations of returns. So what does Manufacturer do?
Manufacturer sends their goal-supporting sales expectations to Dealer who, using reports available from the government and other data services, is required to find potential new sales within their predefined market area and report back to Manufacturer. If Manufacturer does not like Dealer's Sales Plan, they pitch a fit. Dealer then "tweaks" their numbers to get Manufacturer to shut up so they can get busy sussing out new business.
But the Internet is different.
From the beginning Small Business and individuals were told they no longer had to rely on what was physically around them to sell. Yes, Small Business and Individuals, your market reach was no longer finite. You could sell to the world. All one had to do was have this nifty little thing called a URL then build a website and somehow magically search engines would make the business seen by everybody. And it worked that way for a while.
Let's take Amazon as just one example. I heard about this thing called Amazon Advantage for Small Publishers. I had published a book. I needed a wider audience to purchase it. My book went up, product was shipped to Amazon from which they fulfilled orders; and it sold pretty good for one year.
I kept my end of the agreement, too. I was selling hot and heavy into library systems across the U.S.* Then Amazon went public and that book's physical inventory disappeared though the website said it was still available for purchase. Where I could call and talk to my rep before, now I couldn't get a live person to save my soul. Online sales of that book were over.
What I experienced was the first of Big Tech's bites into controlling my market reach which limited my market share and there was nothing I could do about it.
From friendly search engines simply indexing available content so that seeking searchers could use
Boolean phrases to find what they wanted, these were quickly eclipsed by Goo-Goo-Goo offering easier searching without the Boolean language and supplied, O! Happy Days!, neat gadgets to use on your computer that were Fun! and Helpful! and Efficient! Of course, they also began to control which search returns showed up first and Your's Could Be One For a Fee!
Death to the other search engines...or if they wanted to live, they had to pull their feed from The Big G and the web became even stronger for The Big G. [In response to that autocratic control came the rise of the Dark Web.] Soon, the only way to get an ad on the Internet was to pay The Big G. And if they did not like your company (let's say it was a possible competitor) or your opinion, your ad was either buried or The Big G blocked you from buying an ad, best case, or worst case: Blocked you from having your opinion seen.
You can repeat this scenario with Bacefook Ads and Twitless, too.
The question, though, is why?
Why was it so important for The Big G and social media companies to have that much control?
Simple: They have an agenda and that agenda is a One World Government run by them and for them.
We know this because the United Nations has always had that same agenda and have been quietly (as far as the public knows about it) yet overtly funding and supporting goals of terrorist organizations in order to keep the world unbalanced so that regular folks will be calling for a solution and they can get back to living their lives in peace and security.
And who will be in a good position to step in to deliver that peace and security? The United Nations, of course, and its handmaidens du jour, Big Tech.
You think I jest.
I do not. And if they could deliver on it, then yay for everybody. The problem, though, is that they themselves are manipulated by Satan, and by Satan I do not mean The Great Satan as the United States of America is defined by Radical Muslims. I mean Satan the Devil, Almighty God's arch nemesis who, from almost the very first get-go has wanted control to be his and not God's, and who has used lies, terror, and manipulation to get it. The United Nations and Big Tech are merely another of Satan's tools to continue his war against good people and God and His Son.
"Now, Angela, aren't you just being a little bit naive here?"
That would be a big no. In fact, to think otherwise is to be naive and leaves one open to being constantly jerked around. The Bible talks of these things. I've studied the book for many years. But there is good news: Satan via the United Nations and whichever handmaidens du jour they use, will not be successful. In fact, they will fail spectacularly.
So, while I might find it nearly impossible to have an online business or to get my writings out in front of a wider audience, I know I am not alone in this fight. And what solutions get pushed out will not work if the real reason for the existence of the problem is not accurately defined.
In other words, just because a doctor thinks you have a broken arm, doesn't mean it is. So if he treats a broken arm but it is your foot that got chopped off, what good is the cast?
* The book was so helpful it kept getting stolen from libraries until finally the libraries said they were not going to reorder anymore. Also, one of my distributors went out of business at the same time. Another simply changed their name and moved to God-knows-where stealing my stock.
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