Google is Building a Tech Dystopia in Canada

But as you know and as you've talked about extensively, Joe, this wave of censorship that has happened in the last two years since Trump got elected because of Russian propaganda and fake news hysteria. And it's just propped up these same institutions and it's really just gone after a lot of alternative and independent media that have gone by the wayside. And people who have been propped up by right-wing billionaires and billionaires in general are not going to be affected at the end of the day, but all the people who have been caught up in this censorship with the algorithms, with the deplatforming, it's really scary. It's really, really scary. It is scary to me because the internet in my eyes is this unique place where people can get information and distribute information. And then on top of that, you have this almost parasitic entity that is allowing you to distribute information and gather information through it, but also controlling the flow of information and then controlling the flow in its own ideological bend, like to sort of match its own ideas of what should and shouldn't happen. And I think they feel justified by having a guy like Trump in office, having a guy like Trump come into office and go, well, we have to do something about that. So what we're going to do is we're going to silence conservative voices. We're going to silence conservative pundits. We're going to silence, call people alt-right and just change our algorithms to make it much more difficult for them to propagate their ideas. I just find that really distressing because I think that in the marketplace of ideas, you're supposed to be able to combat a bad idea with a better idea. And this is how ideas evolve. This is how people get to communicate. You get to look at what someone's saying, look at how someone's dissecting what someone's saying, and then for yourself, figure out what you believe and what you don't believe. And there should be a free exchange of information so that you can figure that out. And when someone's shown to be a bad actor or a liar or have deceptive news, fake news, whatever you want to call it, okay, now we know, and this is a clear example of that, so now take it with a grain of salt whenever they say anything about anything else. But when you deplatform them and shove them aside, they say, see, they're trying to silence us because they don't believe us or they don't want us to be in power because they're trying to prop up whatever left-wing socialist economy or dictator that they want to put into place. And it's this weird sort of situation where you've got people dictating and almost engineering our culture. Right, curating our reality. Yes. You know what's going on in Toronto with Alphabet, the parent company of Google? No. It's a very disturbing thing to a lot of people where they're essentially setting up blocks and they're putting cameras in these places and they're gathering data and information and they're trying to engineer a utopian city. Yeah. I was reading about it yesterday and I was like, no. This is a terrible idea. Google is so fucking terrifying. What if these people don't want to be filmed? What if these people don't want information gathered about them? They're doing it under the guise of, here it is, Alphabet's plan for Toronto depends on huge amounts of data. Oh, great. Yeah, we need more data collection, data mining. And their idea is that they're going to make it easier for people to get around and smoother. But how? By like facial recognition? I love how they always say, oh, people are being sex trafficked and this will help. It's like, no, dude, this is like 0.0001% of all the people that you're data mining. So Sidewalks Labs released more detailed plans for Toronto, the site of Google's sister company's first attempt to bring its techified digital forward sensibility to a full scale development project. The Sidewalks Lab, Sidewalks Labs projects dates to 2017 when the Canadian city welcomed the company to an undeveloped section of its waterfront now after 18 months of speculation work. Oh, God. God damn these motherfuckers. They're proper best. Speculating work and backlash from local advocates. The company has a 1,524 page master plan for the 12 acre lot called Quayside. First of all, I hate the fucking name. What is this? Quayside. Four volume plan highlights ambitions and sometimes flashy innovations from Sidewalks Labs, which is pledged to spend 1.3 billion on the project if it goes forward. The company hopes to construct all the buildings with timber, which it says is better for the environment, it also catches fire, and build an underground pneumatic tube system for garbage removal. It wants residents to lean on public transit, walking and biking rather than personal vehicles. Good luck. Zero degrees in Toronto, you assholes. And plans to build streets with autonomous vehicles, perhaps from its sister company, Waymo. Listen, delivery robots. Waymo, Waymo. Do you know what Waymo is? No. No, I don't need. Delivery robots might trundle down its wide sidewalks. Strategic use of large, very large umbrella-like coverings might make outdoor spaces comfortable all year round. No small feat in Lakeshore, Canada. York wants to designate 20% of the apartments as affordable and another 20% as middle income. So they're engineering a city. This is by people who are really just openly social justice warriors. These are the people that censored that James DeMoor guy and fired him for having this memo that really kind of discussed women in tech based on evolutionary biology, based on studies. And they said that he was highlighting harmful gender stereotypes, which is not true. It's not accurate. If you look at what he actually said and what he actually wrote, he even had a page and a half dedicated in that memo trying to come up with strategic ways to encourage women to get into technology. The study that, the paper that James DeMoor wrote has no relation to the way he's been framed and the way people talk about him. This is a direct result of Google. From Google's social justice warrior ethos, the way they operate as a company. Google pretends to be, don't be evil. This seems like an algorithmic shift. They gave up on don't be evil. They took that down by the way. Oh, they took that down. Why the fuck would you ever take that down? They're like, okay, we're evil now. But this just seems like they plugged in some shit in an algorithm and they're like, all right, this is our city now. They're creating sims. It's control. I mean, Google, I agree with David Pakman's kind of depiction on Google. I think that they're a giant corporation. They have billions offshore in tax havens and they are not liberal. They appear to be liberal because that's capitalism. You're trying to basically adapt to where society is at and you want to pretend like you are socially conscious. But when you look at their actual policies, they're conservative as fuck. I mean, they actually fund a lot of crazy like Koch brother, Alec. They fund a lot of right wing organizations, the Federalist Society they've given huge grants to. So I think that they're kind of playing both sides. Deregulation to lobby for kind of the deregulation of their industry. So I think that all of the perception and the mantra of Google and YouTube and catering to like the social consciousness and what you're talking about, I think is honestly just to make more money. Well, I'm sure they're going to make more money in the process of doing this. But the idea that they're going to engineer a city to me is terrifying. That's insane. I just don't like it. You know, there was a great podcast that Sam Harris did with the guy who was explaining what Google has essentially done and what they've done with data. The data is essentially a commodity that we didn't know was a commodity. And we all gave up our rights to this commodity. And this commodity turns out is worth billions and billions of dollars and no one had any idea. And they just took it and now they have it. And they have it for, and what are they giving you for this? They let you search things. Like what are they giving you for this? It lets you use their email. Like it's kind of crazy. They search your email for certain keywords and all of a sudden, you know, you're looking for a patio chair. You're like, I'm looking to buy a patio chair. And all of a sudden your fucking Google mentions are filled with patio chairs because you send an email to a friend. It's really, really creepy. Or just talk about something. Yeah, talk about it. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. My guest yesterday, my friend, Will Harris, he was talking about trading in his car and he got a fucking text message, a text message that said, Hey, I hear you're looking to trade in your car. So, you know, here's a, here's a link as to what you could get for it. And he goes, I'm not clicking that fucking link. Like a text message with a link showed up on his phone because of something he was talking about. He wasn't even talking on the phone. That's what's crazy. It's really, really scary. It's fucking insane. Yeah. No, that's terrifying. How does that happen? Does anyone know how that happens? Right. Like if you and I were talking right now and you said, uh, I need a new laptop and you started getting laptop ads in your Google feed, what is happening? Is your phone listening to you say that? Yeah. Yep. Is that legal? No. I mean, it, it combs through everything. I mean, that's what's so fucking scary about it. Apple is the best at it in terms of like not giving up your data. It's one of the reasons why I still use an iPhone and support Apple. Apple goes out of their way to not share your data when you use maps. That's why Apple maps suck. It's one of the reasons why it's not good. There was a fucking great article that was written about it. Uh, they called Apple maps, the Bing of, uh, of, of navigation tools. It's like, you know, Bing, the, the search engine for who the fuck uses that? I, I use a windows laptop. I use Bing the fuck out here with that. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, you can automatically use it, but Google's just, no, and Google's fucked. I mean, no, and all the, when going back to this whole like tech censorship thing, they preemptively changed the algorithm. That's what's so scary to me is that there wasn't even a law, you know, like China, we are, we all know that China censors the internet. We've done the same thing here, but people just think that we still have, you know, freedom of information that we can all access all these things. No, I mean, Google, YouTube, I mean, cause YouTube is owned by Google now, but they preemptively change the algorithms. They backpaged all of this progressive media, independent media. So it wasn't just about what they're saying. It's about, I mean, this, this was targeted to basically all extreme views. Everything that they felt like was too radical. I mean, going back to the DNI report, which is where this all started from this kind of conclusive report that they said these 17 intelligence agencies, you know, here's, here's all the evidence of how Russia colluded and cost the election for Hillary. They cited my show on breaking, on breaking the set. Do you did it? They said I was part of the conspiracy of Russian meddling. Did you Russian medal? Abby Martin, are you a Russian? I just did what Putin told me to do, man. I mean, I'm sorry. Someone's going to take that and use it as a snippet. But in the, in the report, it said, um, she fomented radical discontent. And when you look at what all this is, sewing discord, all of these, um, you know, the black box algorithm from Hamilton 68 dashboard, like this us government funded Twitter crawler that just like determines what's Russian propaganda, what's fake news. And then you have, you know, Facebook working with the Atlantic council, which is an organization stacked with literal spooks, cops, CIA heads and defense contractors, UAE, US government. That's who's like curating our reality now. And it's all about expunging the most radical views on the internet to prop up essentially the system and the establishment. And that's why I know it's not a liberal or conservative thing. It's literally just extremist thought and radical thought that challenges the status quo because sewing discord just means disagreement. That's what they said this was about. These websites so discord, Joe, I mean, that's, I thought that was a fundamental thing about American democracy is that you talk about what we disagree on. And when you look at what the report says of what breaking the set covered DMT, I mean, if that wasn't in the report, you were on there talking about DMT, but you talked about aliens. Yeah, no, we talked about who the fuck we wanted. But because I talked about things like inequality and Occupy Wall Street and Hillary Clinton, that was all part of this grand conspiracy to sew discord on behalf of the Russian government. So it becomes very comical once you kind of poke at the underlying narrative driving this way with censorship.