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    Top Reasons to Boycott Google

     

    When you make a search on Google, your IP address, the time, and what you searched for is permanently stored in their database forever. This information can be easily used to identify you and determine every search term, every website, every picture, and every video you have ever used. Google claims they keep this information to 'improve service', and it may also be used to 'targtet' advertising to your tastes. But your whole search record is also available to any U.S. government agency which can get a court order, and given Google's close relationship with the U.S. Spy service and military, it may even be accessed illegally by such groups.

    2-Google has close relationships to the CIA's venture capital firm and supplies key technologies to both the CIA and U.S. military, including servers for 'Intellipedia', the CIA's main online platform for collecting and sharing information among its spies and agents. Mapping software supplied to the CIA and U.S. military and used in its invasions, occupations, and interference in other countries was also developed by the same Google subsidiary that developed Google Earth.

    3-Google is now collaborating closely with the U.S. government in its attempts to control, discredit, and even destabilize China, via false claims about China's internet activities.

    4-To protect yourself - and the world - from Google, you can use another search engine. For example, www.ixquick.com/ is a powerful Dutch meta search engine that has interfaces in English, Chinese, and other languages Xquick offers the important advantage that it does not work with the CIA and U.S. military; does not collect your internet IP address and the places you visit online; and does not work with the U.S. state department against other sovereign nations.

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