Google’s plan to revolutionise cities is a takeover in all but name

[_h_o_d_]

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/oct/21/google-urban-cities-planning-data

[xr4ti]

> Its executives have floated the idea of taking some struggling city – Detroit? – and reinventing it around Alphabet services, with no annoying regulations blocking this march of progress.

This is pretty much exactly the plot of Robocop. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RoboCop

[oceanghost → xr4ti]

Yes, but will Google's fascism be symmetrical?

https://news.avclub.com/behold-the-fearful-symmetry-of-roboc...

[mike_ivanov]

"Google Urbanism means the end of politics, as it assumes the impossibility of wider systemic transformations"

That would serve as a definition of neofeudalism.

[featherverse]

no duh. Why do people tolerate google? Nobody is so dumb to not realize what they're doing, everyone has seen or read 1984.

Something doesn't add up.