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What if Google were Evil by Cory Doctorow

Went Hot: September 17, 2007 - 2:42 pm
Posted By: graywolf 657 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.radaronline.com)
Category: Google

Google controls your e-mail, your videos, your calendar, your searches… What if it controlled your life?

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from SexySEO 657 days ago #

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I was laughing to death :) Thanks, Michael!

http://mashable.com/2007/08/24/microsoft-yahoo-censorship-pact-china-bloggers/

from bpcombs 657 days ago #

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That's funny stuff. Great writing from Cory as usual.

from jonathan 656 days ago #

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This has been on my ind a lot lately. Besides the obvious-ness of his article, the security threat of Google is beginning to freak me out day by day.

I'm starting to take measures to move my life away from Google so it isn't controlled nearly as much.

from Antiopodean 656 days ago #

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Highly paranoid, very scary and potentially plausible.

from fantomaster 655 days ago #

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Great piece.

The only beef I have with it is the "what if" sub title (probably not Cory's own) - reminds me of mainstream media posing nonsensical rhetorical questions like "are we on the way towards the surveillance state", as if this were a case of future tense. Not that things can't get even worse, they sure can and most probably will, but pretending that it's all not there YET is mere obscurantism.