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The People's Platform

Taking Back Power and Culture in the Digital Age
The truth is that the public good is increasingly financed by private money. Google Books, despite the legal troubles that dogged the endeavor, is a prime example of this phenomenon. While often described as a "universal library" the project is anything but. More accurately, it was devised with the aim of transforming the library from an institution that collects and distributes information to the public into one that collects and distributes the public's information in service of Google's core advertising business.