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«Anyone can just "Google" stuff and say it's true»
The title of this thread is me quoting a local-sheriff after describing the existence of major financial-fraud going on in the «system» to him (
ironically, I was later on forced to file a counter-complaint against him and his co-conspirators for deprivations of rights under colour-of-law [18USC241], amongst other acts of
treason).
«There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn’t true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.» – Søren Kierkegaard (1813-55)
«This chapter does not argue against skepticism. On the contrary, it demonstrates that critical thinking is a double-edged sword: It must be applied to any claim, including the claims of skeptics.» -Dean Radin
So, some months ago, discussion came up about the introduction of legislations in some countries to essentially
ban gacha-sales (I also recall from elsewhere at another community that
they [who-ever
they might be] are/were planning to «ban your [let's-just-say-this-is-a-animé-related-NSFW-term-here]»).
Anyway, just this last week, regarding Google, a law-suit by the U.S. Government (and 11 other states) is being dish out (i.e.:
served) against them...
https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/business/us-government-sues-google-heres-all-you-need-to-know-about-the-antitrust-case-5994071.html
The «complaint-document» consists of sixty-four (64) pages... SIXTY-FOUR pages
!!!
Too bad there don't seem to be any search-results with
direct-link to said law-suit (in Legal-practice...
obtaining such is called
Discovery).
Comments
Wanna get away from Google? Use Yellow Pages!
Lastly, I always found it a bizarre use of one's logical-faculties that, just because some information came from one particular source or another, that it automatically becomes true or false just because the source said so. Let's put it another way : Well, what is quoted in this thread's title is one thing, but can it also not be said that... «Anybody can read a book and say that it's true» or «Anybody can go to the library and say it's true» or how about even «Anybody can watch something on TV and say it's true» and maybe we could even take it so far as to claim that «Mr. X said it so it must be true» (appeal-to-authority fallacy) but if the same thing were said by Mr. Y and the masses like Mr. X but not Mr. Y they would end up saying «Mr. Y said it so it can't possibly be true (reverse-appeal-to-authority fallacy as-if who said a particular thing makes it true or not [«Mr. X said that 2+2 = 5 so it must be true because he said it !» in contrast to «Mr. Y said that 2+2=4 so we know that it's false to claim that 2+2=4 because he said it!»]). I once had some neighbours who said that their grandma was always right... always (and it turned out that she wasn't wrong on anything that I tested her on either [home-schooling FTW!]).