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Feds Ordered Google To Unmask Certain YouTube Users. Critics Say It’s ‘Terrifying.’
(www.forbes.com)
this post was submitted on 24 Mar 2024
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As soon as Google bought YouTube they knew who the users were and everything they did online. This was never not true. Their business is to log all the activity of all internet users, not to make them safe or happy, there is nothing broken in their platform as far as they are concerned.