Google Weeps While Running The Table; The behemoth continues roguish exploitation of its users — Is Google seeking to indenture users as data slaves?

As ¡No Pasarán! fights for its reinstatement, Damian Bennett presents an up-to-date picture of Google and the tech giants.

• Who Owns The Web Now? Centralization Vs. Decentralization In The Age Of AI September 1, 2025
• Google Admits The Open Web Is ‘In Rapid Decline’ — Reversing Earlier Claim That Traffic Is ‘Thriving’ September 9, 2025
• AI, Connected TV, And More: Google Blames Market Shifts For Open Web Decline September 9, 2025

Oh. Wait a minute.

• Google Cloud Chief Details How Search Giants Is Making Billions Monetizing Its AI Products September 9, 2025
  “We’ve made billions using AI already,” said [Google’s cloud chief Thomas] Kurian, speaking at the Goldman Sachs Communacopia and Technology Conference in San Francisco. Kurian said that Google Cloud’s backlog of customer demand is growing faster than its revenue. “Our backlog is now at $106 billion — it is growing faster than our revenue,” he said. “More than 50% of it will convert to revenue over the next two years.”

Apparently Big Blue Tech is both winning and losing the AI Great Turning. 

Meanwhile Google continues roguish exploitation of its users.

• France Fines Google Nearly $380 Million For Inserting Cookies And Ads Between Emails September 4, 2025
• European Commission Fines Google Nearly $3.5 Billion Over Abusive Online Advertising Practices September 5, 2025
• Google Hit With $425.7 Million Verdict For Spying On Users’ Smartphones For Nearly A Decade September 5, 2025
• Parents Urged To Keep Kids Away From Google's 'Unsafe' Chatbot September 9, 2025

In pursuit of profit (not a bad thing) Google seeks to indenture users as data slaves (definitely a bad thing). "Don't be evil." Well that's long gone by the board. Perhaps it's time to lean, lean hard into Google 'bad news' when discussing its furtive ¡No Pasarán! censure enforcement. Google will never be shamed into doing the right thing, but it certainly doesn't want more attention drawn to 'bad news', i.e., reshape ¡No Pasarán! censure from an instance of abuse to part of a larger, general, historic and continuing pattern of user abuse.