By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 05/08/2026Forget "Don't be evil"; Google's true motto is a form of vulgar spidermanism: "With great power comes no responsibility." The internet's *de facto* boss is an absentee landlord. 1/ 420677
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 05/08/2026If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog: pluralistic.net/2026/08/05/a... 2/pluralistic.netPluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow – No trackers, no ads. Black type, white background. Privacy policy: we don't collect or retain any data at all ever period. 13710
Judge Rob @judgerob.bsky.social · 05/08/2026Great essay. You concentrate on search, but it's also true in their stores. Google Books has scam books with the same name as real books designed where the purported authors generate them with LLMs. Again, trivial for them to address but they don't. 2164
JudithFlanders @judithflanders.co.uk · 05/08/2026The phrase Kipling wrote for Baldwin, then prime minister, about the press:* ‘Power without responsibility, the privilege of the harlot through the ages.’ 110
