Internet: Pope Francis' 'Gift of God' or Orwellian Power Base?

Oh, to have been a fly on the wall when Pope Francis hooked up with former Google CEO, Eric Schmidt in the Vatican this morning. But all the flies are buzzing at the White House over what the Democrats hope is the corpse of the Republican Establishment-mangled Trump/Cruz/Carson carcasses.

"Revealed: in a sign of importance pontiff places on the internet, Francis will hold 15-minute meetup with executive chairman of Google parent company, Alphabet (Guardian, Jan 13, 2016)

"A source close to the Vatican, who was familiar with the details of the meeting but not authorised to speak on the record, confirmed the brief meeting would take place on Friday. Another source familiar with the meeting said Schmidt was due to meet with the pope privately along with Jared Cohen, a former US state department official who is now head of Google Ideas. Schmidt co-wrote a book with Cohen in 2013 called The New Digital Age: Reshaping the Future of People, Nations and Business. "Google declined to respond to several requests for comment over the past 24 hours about the meeting. The planned encounter was first mooted in a barely noticed tweet two days ago by a man named Iacopo Scaramuzzi, who has been described on Twitter as a Vaticanista, or Vatican expert."

Pope Francis once described the internet as a "gift from God". And so it must seem for President Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Kim Kardashian and all who know how to conquer it for publicity.

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Google's rule over the Internet is unquestionable and bestows full power on Eric Schmidt whose company Alphabet now makes the boast it will someday soon replace the human brain with Artificial Intelligence. No doubt that the Creator will never see the replacement of His Creation of Man by Artificial Intelligence as a "Gift from God". Francis was the first pope to take his message regularly to Twitter, and the @pontifex account, first opened by Pope Benedict, now has 8.4 million followers. He's hosted two Google Hangouts live from the Vatican. (Guardian) Though the Pontiff has admitted to not having a computer, he is clearly no stranger to the power of technology, which is what he used when he sent out his Epiphany message that all religions are the same. The same power was not in force for traditional Catholic author, columnist and speaker Louie Verricchio when Vimeo removed a video he posted challenging Pope Francis's 'all-religions-are-the-same message to the world.

"I suspect that many if not most of you have already viewed the latest affront to Our Blessed Lord from Pope Francis--a wretched video produced by a Jesuit organization called Pope World Prayer Network--Apostleship of Prayer (as if these people bear any resemblance to the Apostles!) entitled, "The Pope Video." "Just in case you've missed it, the original cringe-worthy piece is below, immediately followed by a version that is more properly translated courtesy of yours truly. [SPOILER ALERT: The Great Apostasy has indeed begun.]"

The Pope Video

Verricchio's video

Verricchio's video is no more on Vimeo, but rides over the 'Net, courtesy of GloriaTV. In his lengthy address on technology, Pope Francis once said: "On the global level we see a scandalous gap between the opulence of the wealthy and the utter destitution of the poor." "We should not overlook the fact that those who for whatever reason lack access to social media run the risk of being left behind." (Guardian) Meanwhile, Louie Verricchio and blogosphere friends like David Domet have proven that the Internet has become more Orwellian than the Pope Francis-described 'Gift of God' because just as it is everywhere else in Marxism, some animals are more equal than others.