Chapter 947: The Dying Pieces

As far as the matter is concerned, Meng Qian's building a library is a side response, but it will not directly cause the stock prices of Silicon Valley companies to plummet.

But this crash has nothing to do with Meng Qian.

Because the external environment has been continuously amplifying the affairs of American companies in recent days.

For example, the chairman of the World Artificial Intelligence Standards Organization has stood up and expressed his attitude under the world public opinion. The organization does not support the abuse of artificial intelligence, and will take some specific measures for the development of artificial intelligence standards in response to this issue.

The definition of the abuse of artificial intelligence is mainly aimed at the problem of advertising recommendation, because the public now has a good tolerance for the problem of not having too much direct consumption.

But the recommended advertisements of some companies are really using their control over user information to play with users.

But the United States has an advertising culture, and the speed of fermentation has exceeded Cook's expectations.

Especially if companies all over the world are the same, then they will end up talking about it, and then they should do so. After all, the reality is that it is often easier for capitalists to control the world when they are in groups.

But the problem is that Huaxia companies have different attitudes on this issue.

Cook just didn’t realize this problem. Of course, the problems he raised existed, and they really needed to be changed. However, Huaxia companies had taken measures to deal with these problems in the early years, but American companies actually had something to do, but they just didn’t do so much. When these issues are taken seriously, the contrast becomes more apparent.

Beginning in mid-April, users' emotions gradually "excited", and a large-scale outbreak occurred, and the first target was Google.

On April 18, some netizens in the United States launched an anti-Google alliance on the Internet. The first thing the anti-Google alliance did was to promise not to use Google products anymore.

In the next three days, the return rate of Google’s electronic products soared by more than 100%, the deletion rate of Google apps soared by more than 300%, and the usage rate of Google search plummeted by 65%. Welcome back to America.

On April 20, Google's official website was hacked, and hackers wrote on Google's official website not to violate user privacy.

On April 21, netizens began to organize a joint petition, asking the government to thoroughly investigate Google and give users an explanation.

Eric couldn't understand how things suddenly turned out like this, "It's not the first time Cook mentioned user privacy. There has never been such a big response before. What happened this time?"

"Everything is too chaotic now." Brin's face was ugly, "It's true that all of this is too strange, and we can grasp the key situation at present. Huaxia companies are publicizing their protection of user privacy outside the United States. measure.

And this information is constantly pouring into the country, which has caused a certain impact on the American people.

Moreover, we can clearly see the targeting of our Google in overseas speeches, which is obviously someone deliberately messing with us. "

"Meng Qian! It must be Meng Qian! And that Zhang Shuxin!"

"Indeed, I also think it's Meng Qian, because we have reviewed the previous privacy public opinion incidents this time, and almost every time a privacy public opinion incident occurred, Dafeng Group was not stable.

Back then, Dafeng Group was able to carve out a world in the Internet field. The very important point was that Meng Qian was obsessed with the security card, but now, Meng Qian is obviously obsessed with the privacy card.

So this time things suddenly developed to this point. It may be because the contradiction itself is intensifying. Maybe it’s not that there is anything special this time. It’s just that the accumulation of emotions will always have a big eruption day, and now this big eruption is here. . "

"So Cook is a fool! What has become of Silicon Valley these years, he hasn't figured out what everyone should pay attention to most now, and he only focuses on Apple's interests every day.

If it weren't for Cook's talkativeness, there would be no fuse for public opinion to explode recently! "

"It's useless to say these things now, and it's impossible for us to ask Cook to bear all of this." Page, who has been silent for a long time, also has obvious anger in his tone, "We have to appease the public's emotions, which is the most important thing. of."

"What are you thinking now?"

"Go and make a promise to everyone. What everyone wants is a guarantee. Google is not the only one that is in trouble now. We should go to other companies to have a good talk, and everyone will come forward to establish a new privacy protection mechanism, using laws and ethics. double guarantee to promise users."

Eric and Brin looked at each other, "That's the only way to go."

Beginning on April 22, Google spent a lot of energy on public relations and frequently contacted American technology companies. Of course, everyone did not forget to teach Cook a lesson.

On April 28, more than two dozen companies took Apple directly to court.

But on the next day, Google's stock price suddenly plummeted by 17%, and then Google's stock price plummeted by 50% in three days.

"Obviously someone is deliberately shorting our stock price!" Page looked at the falling Google stock in the office, his hands were shaking.

"Is it Huaxia Enterprise? Is it Dafeng Group?" Brin subconsciously thought of Dafeng Group.

"It's not the Dafeng Group, they're not so stupid, they won't come to our US market to do something that is easy to make a fuss about." Eric called out a news article, "It's what the Anti-Google Alliance did."

Brin and Page took a closer look at the news. According to the news, although Google has been in the whirlpool of public opinion since April 20, the stock price has risen instead of falling. The key is that several big funds behind it stabilized it. Google's share price.

As a result, this phenomenon caused discomfort to everyone in the anti-Google alliance. Many people said that this was blatant stock price manipulation, especially in the anti-Google alliance. The anti-Google alliance defined this matter as Wall Street and Silicon Valley jointly suppressing retail investors.

Afterwards, a mysterious person in the anti-Google alliance stood up and initiated a plan to sell Google short. In just one week, a large number of retail investors were gathered. Whether it was the mysterious person or the group of retail investors, everyone’s purpose was very clear. To give Silicon Valley and Wall Street a little color, of course, another purpose is to make money.

The unity of a large number of retail investors quickly broke the bulls who wanted to stabilize Google's stock price. Even if the government came forward and wanted to protect Google, they really couldn't hold it under the strong offensive of these retail investors, and Google's stock price began to go crazy. slump.

"Behind this matter," Brin sensitively realized that the matter was not simple, "it is really getting more and more chaotic."

Eric also saw it very clearly, "Yeah, there is not only anger at Google, Silicon Valley, and Wall Street, but also extreme emotions challenging official authority. This is not a simple grouping of retail investors. A concentrated outburst of emotions.

Moreover, the communication platforms chosen by these people are Twitter and YouTube”

"This first binds us to Twitter, and then puts us on the opposite side of Twitter, and at the same time drags Wall Street and the government to the end. This is to completely disrupt the overall environment!" Page was a little angry, Because Google has become a very passive and even dying pawn in the whole incident.

"Is there a pusher behind this? Why do I feel more and more that something is wrong!"

"I know what you're thinking, but now there is no evidence to prove that this matter has anything to do with Dafeng Group or Meng Qian." Eric indicated that many people had guessed so, and they all went to look for evidence, but there was no any discovery.

"Can the information of the mysterious initiator be found? That should be a breakthrough, right?"

"There's no need to check." Page, who was looking down at his phone, put the phone in front of the two of them. "The mysterious man has just stepped up and revealed his identity. He is a folk extremist."