Saturday 21 September 2013

The GREED OF Larry Page and Sergey Brin.

Larry Page and Sergey Brin are the founders and 16% owners of internet giant Google. As of 2013, Page's personal wealth is estimated to be US $20.3 billion, ranking him 13th on the Forbes 400, a list of the 400 richest Americans. In 2013 Sergey Mikhaylovich Brin's personal wealth was estimated to be $22.8 billion by Forbes making him the 21st richest man on the planet.

But like most billionaires the more money they get the greedier they become, in 2012 Google invested $18.2 billion dollars in to lobbying making them the 8th biggest government investors in the USA, money well spent because due to the super rich and huge multi national corporations like Google lobbying there are now so many loop holes in the tax system its easy for these billionaire corporations like Google, Amazon and Starbucks to avoid paying the huge tax bills that the middle and working classes are imprisoned for not paying.

The working classes pay as little as 20% and as much as 50% the super rich pay as little as 0% and as much as 5%, its a effective way to keep themselves rich and the rest of us poor, Google tax evasion has cost the American tax payer $3.1 billion dollars over a three year span, why else would the lobbyists lobby?

Google finances is not the only source of power Google have, Google also have control of information, they have information on its users even more disturbingly they have the power to chose what we read on Google news and even what we watch on Youtube, Google may not yet censor but even without full blown censorship they have the power to hide and slow the spread information, if Google do not like something like criticism of themselves for scandals like tax evasion and lobbying they can easily hide it and prevent millions from reading it. Google is a very dangerous and greedy company and the greed of Google is destroying the internet, they have already destroyed Youtube with ads and censor now they are destroying the whole internet and freedom of speech at the same time.






1 comment:

  1. Hopefully, a film will be made about this, and may it be compulsive viewing for as many people as possible.

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