Propaganda
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first heard Jan 2025
last heard Apr 2025
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So what Google did was like, I don't care if you're using Chrome, even if you use Safari, whatever phone you got when you open it, make a deal with us where you automatically, your search engine goes to Google. When the last time you said, I'm going to Bing something, I'm going to ask Jeebs something. No, you Google it.
So they made deals with phone makers and other hardware folk to be like, look, just let us be your default browser. Now, you all know you could go into your phone. You could go into your settings and say, like, I want this other thing to be the default. But who's going to do that? Some people do. Like some of y'all folks who just are like anti iPhone because you believe in freedom.
You want to you want to Android. which is just another company. Like, I don't understand how y'all don't understand that. But your belief is you want to be able to customize it in the way that you want to customize it because Apple tell you what to do. And one of the things that Apple tell you to do is like, it's automatically going to go to a Google.
Now, with that being automatically your search engine and them gathering a trillion, kajillion, mega, kabillion, probably flobily flillion megabits of information on us, They can sell ad spaces. So if you are a person like me who make they living online, I mean, you have to use the Google market. You have to use their ad spaces. You have to do search engine optimization.
You have to be able to show up in their ad revenue space because that's where everybody at. Why in the hell would you buy an ad at Bing? What is that going to do for you? And since they're the only people in town, they're the only people that it really makes sense to spend your money on. They could charge you whatever they want. Let me tell you why Terraform Cold Brew wasn't on Amazon.
Because I would lose $2 per can. Like, I would be paying them. Like, there's no, but at the same time, Terraform cold brew out of money. If you went to the website, ain't no coffee there because I'm out of money. You understand what I'm saying? Like, they make it where, I mean, what are your other options? That phrase, like, what's my other option? That is a monopoly.
Now, what Google argued was the same thing that Microsoft argued, which was like, fam, I'm sorry for being good at my business, but people can do whatever they want. We just happen to try to give people an offer they can't refuse. Now, what was interesting this time was the Supreme Court brought up not just X's and O's. It wasn't just
business and like nerdery around the law they brought up psychology and it's this concept called the psychology of the default no no let me say it right the power of default now you and i i don't even have to explain that you understand when something's just your default setting you just after a while because something just becomes so normal you don't even think about
that there are other alternatives like you'd have to go out of your way to do that that's the default and what they were arguing is that is proof of a monopoly in our brains google's a verb despite the quality of of google because you probably experience same thing i'm experiencing when you try to google something it's like because of the ai thing i'm like y'all your product's getting worse.
Now, that's probably because we're old and we're not searching on TikTok, which is where the rest of the people search, which was Google's defense. Google's like, I'm not worried about Netscape or Ask Jeeves, I'm worried about TikTok. Like that's a search engine. And they're like, fam, no, it's not. What are you talking about?
The psychology or the power of the default is when your brand is so strong that you just don't think of, you don't even think, of course there's alternatives. You don't even think of it, which is like,
a new strategy to argue that somebody has a monopoly so what's the solution the solution is to break up the company that's that's that's usually what what it means now like i told you before what happened with microsoft was basically like they were supposed to split up microsoft office from from windows so that's that was the plan for google it's like you remember this is a
Alphabet's a $2 trillion company. So one of the suggestions was like divesting the Android operating system was like the most frequently discussed option by the Justice Department's attorney. And then some were suggesting the force of the AdWords, like you have to sell that And Google got to let go of that program, right? The search ad program, right?
A divestment from that, from its Chrome web browser. But at the end of the day, they haven't landed on an actual verdict as to how to solve this. They've just said, no, you violated antitrust laws. You have to break up this company. Just curved them. Now, things like this is where your super conservative capitalists argues is a problem.
Because it seems as though this is not free market capitalism. They're like, let the consumer decide. We just did good business and the government shouldn't interfere. These are the same people that don't want the EPA to exist. You know, so if there's mad cow disease in your beef, they like people will stop buying it. So just leave us alone. That's the argument.
Like, well, I mean, tell everybody else get their weight up. They don't want no interference. which I guess I would understand too if I owned a company and was making a kajillion dollars.
But I'm a consumer that really just want to be able to have good products, afford the products we have, and not hear somebody like Jeff Bezos in his rocket that looked like a penis who didn't even actually make it into space and then to say, hey, you guys did this by buying stuff. Like, don't nobody want to see that. Like, okay, listen, here's the underbelly.
Amazon might be next in this. This is the deal we've made without having an option to make this deal. We know we making y'all rich, but we also need to live. And sometimes if you that person, man, the consumer like us, it kind of feel good that there's some big homies that might be able to come in and say, hey, y'all don't get to treat the little homies like that because.
And that's some good stuff. Good politics, y'all. All right, now, don't you hit stop on this pod. You better listen to these credits. I need you to finish this thing so I can get the download numbers, okay? So don't stop it yet. But listen, this was recorded in East Los Boyle Heights by your boy Propaganda. Tap in with me at prophiphop.com.
If you're into cold brew coffee, we got Terraform cold brew. You can go there, .com. And use promo code HOOD, get 20% off, get yourself some coffee. This was mixed, edited, and mastered by your boy Matt Osowski, killing the beat softly. Check out his website, mattosowski.com. I'm going to spell it for you because I know. M-A-T-T-O-S-O-W-S-K-I dot com. Matt Osowski dot com.
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