BMD Daily: Google's Landmark Antitrust Loss
First in a new RW&B series highlighting quality independent media
The “Balanced Media Diet Daily” series provides short, timely posts that highlight a source and story from the diets at BalancedMediaDiet.com that to me seems useful, important, or interesting given the day’s news. Please let me know in the comments whether you find the item useful.
On Mondays, the Basic Diet recommends NPR and Glenn Greenwald, and this past Monday, Greenwald provided great coverage on a crucial story in the news this week: a huge ruling against Google in a landmark antitrust case.
This fascinating antitrust ruling isn’t getting the coverage that it deserves, and Greenwald provided commentary and analysis that I found interesting and highly informative.
Greenwald is of course one of the world’s most important and credible independent journalists. He is the journalist who helped Edward Snowden release crucial information about government domestic spying while holed up in Hong Kong, as depicted in the films Citizen Four and Snowden.
The Google case is one I’ve been watching closely, as it bears directly on the crucial culture issue of social media censorship. While there are many dangerous forces at play in this country today, there is one issue that I believe is more essential than all the others for the preservation of our way of life and form of government: Censorship. Without Free Speech and a Free Press, neither democracy nor modern science can long survive because establishment forces will always use their power to censor and shut down all innovation and information that threaten their power.
Click to view Greenwald’s reporting on the Google Antitrust Case:
This Google antitrust story was covered in many other Balanced Media Diet outlets too, including the New York Times, the Epoch Times, and NPR. Practice balancing your diet and perspective by reading those too if you have the time.