Dear Google and Big Tech
It’s now a truism that Big Tech is liberal, progressive, fully activist. They seem to prefer the notion of a socialist democracy with a strong state, subservient masses, and of course, plenty of built-in protections and exception for their own wealth building empires. Naturally. In their heads, they love the stereotypical image of a free-thinking millennial urban creative as long as free-thinking = woke = subservient to dominant Silicone Valley politics. They do not have any love for the uncool, non-urban, and non-woke. I’ll make a stretch here and say they fear masculinity, just because of how many movements, causes, and people they endorse seem to have such a dearth of it. You look at every last one of their leadership and with none of them could you say, ‘now there is man’. You see plenty of brains, even genius, untold wealth and power; yet even in their fully adult frame, they come across as boy’s in men’s bodies. But why are you afraid of me Google?
Northeast Reader is a piece of dust on a hair on a pimple in the universal scope of searchable content. I speak freely because I have no revenue derived from this site. I can still be cancelled if I said enough things egregious enough to show up on the radar of the commissars of Google, my web host company, and most especially of federal agencies. But while I don’t endorse insurrection and do encourage democratic revolutions, I am relatively sure that I’m monitored by these entities. Thanks to a well-built tool of Google’s, their ‘Analytics’, I can watch all of them watch me. My knowledge and use of that tool is quite limited and for me at least, imprecise, and yet I can watch patterns in use and tell who my local readers are, my broader organic audience, and those who are monitoring what I say on behalf of their company, organization, or government. So especially to my government friends in China and in Ashburn VA, “hello”!
Given my miniscule size, it’s amazing that I rate any attention at all and yet I wish I got that level of promotion in your search engine Google. I have less of a grasp on whether I’m being dealt an impartial hand in searches – that is, me as a conservative vrs someone millennial, urban, woke, non-masculine. My gut feeling is that I’m buried and separated from a lot of my potential audience. I know this to be probable because a) its well documented, Google, that that’s how you roll, and b) given the percentage of organic hits vrs. probable monitors that I indeed can see. Data speaks.
So what a back-handed compliment Google, that you deem me effective enough to keep Northeast Reader pinned in obscurity. Do yourself a favor monitors and actually read my essays for your personal edification. Better yet, throw open the doors of the world and let the rest of the world see what I have to say. If your philosophies were self-evidently superior compared to mine, I’d be ignored to death, right? Why are you so afraid of me Google?