As I write this article, the following lead paragraph is circulating on the only conservative online media platform in America:

The approval of Donald Trump’s Truth Social on Google’s app store, which controls access to 44 per cent of smartphones in the US, is being held up due to ‘content moderation concerns’, according to reports. As Google’s decision hangs in the balance, a flurry of negative media coverage about Trump’s platform is underway.

The giant search engine Google said that Truth Social’s approval on the Play Store was being held up due to content moderation concerns. Google explained that it had notified Truth Social on August 19: 

of several violations of standard policies in their current app submission and reiterated that having effective systems for moderating user-generated content is a condition of our terms of service for any app to go live on Google Play. 

The Play Store bore the brunt of a media storm over Truth Social when the New York Times published a hit piece about QAnon content appearing on the largely unregulated platform. This allegation was based on data obtained from another left-wing site called Newsguard.

At present, Apple iPhone controls about 55 per cent of the market and Truth Social is available on the Apple Store. Google’s Android controls 44 per cent of the market, meaning that Truth Social’s reach is being severely limited by Google’s stance.

And it is worth noting that despite Truth Social’s clear-cut policy against threats of violence and other criminal activity, Google appears to have made its decision on the basis of one, yes, one example among millions of posts. Never mind that Twitter and Facebook are full of the exact same content. It could be easily argued that legacy social media platforms approved by Google are worse offenders than Truth Social.

While finding that one example is impressive, I would be more impressed by Google’s standards if Google actually had any instead of their implicit support for the largely immoral behaviour of Silicon Valley misfits.

In case you misunderstand me, Google seems to consider moral issues only when we the people want to communicate with leaders of whom they don’t approve. If you want to see what’s on offer on the internet, however, you will get all the assistance you need from Google’s main revenue-raising platform, Google (the search engine). 

Murder, rape, incest, bestiality, violence against women, violence by women, violence by the police, active war zones, terrorism, legal pornography, illegal pornography, human trafficking, and crimes against children. It is all available in the privacy of your own home courtesy of the world’s principle search engine owned by Alphabet.

If you happened to have a few spare pounds of U232 lying around and wanted to build a nuclear weapon, the instructions are there on the web and that address will be delivered to your desktop. So powerful is Google’s market dominance that whenever you attempt a search on an Apple device, it uses Google unless you explicitly tell it not to.

It is all too easy for children to be radicalised into terror, or some other fringe and dangerous ideology, from their homes by simply browsing the internet.

Google is free. There is only limited censorship. In fact, Google is today dominated by paid results in which companies fork out to have their brand jump to the top rather than its former system of search algorithm merit.

When it comes to politics, Google does not appear to like Donald Trump very much. So, while Google does not mind aiding your search for undesirable content, if you want to know what is happening to 45 and what he plans to do while Biden ruins the free world, well, Google has plans for you…