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Google requests permission to release 32m mosquitoes in California and Florida
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 01 Jun 2026
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The fact that Google is behind it is what makes it sketchy. I bet those mosquitoes are carrying 5G.
Also, has anybody thought to ask why Google has 32 million mosquitoes on hand?
Probably the spawn of Sundar Pichai
Truth. Fuck Google, fascist Genocide supporting oligarchs.
Their motives are not pure, for sure. But this program will save many lives, even if its strategic value to Google is long term self benefit.
This isn't new, releasing infertile male mosquitoes to reduce the population is a proven technique, and will genuinely reduce disease risk, so the public-health value is real. Why Google has them on hand? Well, they bought the company that started the program (Verily) and took it over, they have a lot of interest in the health and science sectors, not just AI and search/ads.
The real concern is that public health, ecological management, and climate adaptation are collective needs, but they are increasingly being handled through private corporate platforms. Debug can look humanitarian while also expanding Google’s role in governing public infrastructure, deciding how data is collected, how interventions are deployed, who gets served first, and who remains dependent on corporate technology.
Google is using a real public-health problem to develop a scalable bio-automation platform, gain regulatory and municipal trust, strengthen its public image, and position itself inside future public-health and climate-adaptation infrastructure.
They see huge profits and monopoly on technology that will likely become essential to our survival in the future, as they accelerate that likelihood with their reckless environmentally devastating technologies today. They'll make us pay to use their technology to control pests that threaten our food supply. This isn't charity, it's long term strategic planning.
As for the immediate need, we're gonna need this technology for the devastating future that's coming, and since our corporate controlled government aren't doing it themselves, it might be good to let it happen through evil corporations today, and hopefully when shit gets bad enough people will finally revolt and take ownership of it back to society, where it belongs. If not, we'll continue to be slaves to corporations, but at least half the population won't starve or die of mosquito spread diseases.
I don't like that Google is doing it, and you're absolutely right not to trust their stated motives, and no doubt they're thinking of all possible evil applications of the technology in the future.
They have a lot of money from all that data they collect