Is there an argument to be made for the U.S. government to seize control of Google?

[Dont Taz Me Bro]

no.

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[K9Buck]

There is no legal foundation to seize any company.

That's where you're wrong.

 

[Marion Morrison]

There is no legal foundation to seize any company.

That's where you're wrong.

That's not the right way in this instance.

 

[Uncensored2008]

There is no legal foundation to seize any company.

That's where you're wrong.

No, I'm not wrong.

 

[dblack]

Just curious. Google has, to a great extent, become the gatekeeper of all information. It's been discovered that they are manipulating search results. I myself noticed this when I did a search for a particular article that I had searched for previously over the past several years. One day, it no longer appeared in the results. I've also noticed that the usual liberal sources dominate in the results of any politically-related search. Google and even Twitter and Facebook are, as far as I can tell, monopolies and they control who gets to speak in their modern version of the "town square" and who is NOT permitted to speak. Yea, I know. They're private companies. But, at the same time, they have become the aforementioned "town square" of public discourse and I have to wonder if a legal argument could be made as to why and how the federal government has the right and the duty to take control of that organization and reimburse their shareholders so that freedom of speech and expression can be maintained.

How about it?

Typical Marxist.