why google should stay
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- JazX0
you have to remember that governments run countries and the laws that allow Google to operate and make tons of money are dictated through them.
end of story.
- JazX0
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- chaztoo0
why do you guys hate on Google because they got huge? That philosophy pisses me of to no end. You open-source e-hippies are real bueno with your share-y-share-share attitudes and the idea is great for advancing the technology, but when a few people make a buck off it, they are the Antichrist. Opensource contributes to better things, but so does competition. Try a little balance.
- TheTick0
you have to remember that governments run countries and the laws that allow Google to operate and make tons of money are dictated through them.
end of story.
JazX
(Jan 20 06, 06:55)
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JaxX, true, but how about the companies that couldn't do business with say Saddam's Iraq, or the Soviet Union or the Chinese because Western governments stood on principle (and corporations do exist because governments grant them a charter)? So now with the free market and corporations becoming the de facto states they get away with unprincipled crap that puit a man in jail in China because he spoke his mind?Are corporations accountable? Are they transparent? Or do they go wherever they can make a buck?
Answer is obvious there, I know..but it begs the question - should they operate in a larger context where they can be held accuontable for their actions?
- JazX0
I have no answers for you 'TheTick', you have many good points there man.
:)
- durang0
The feds are doing this in an effort to protect kids from accessing porn on the net ...
"Every other search engine served similar subpoenas by the Bush administration has complied so far, according to court documents. The cooperating search engines weren't identified."
Google is being a big smelly vagina... there's nothing admirable about what they're doing.
- TheTick0
I have no answers for you 'TheTick', you have many good points there man.
:)
JazX
(Jan 20 06, 07:12)
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I don't either man..but shouldn't we be talking about this stuff somewhere...I mean as a culture...I know I'm braying at that old moon..Need more signal, less noise..
- JazX0
I'm down with the Feds controlling the kiddie porn stuff. That's sick. Some hard core liberals need to take a step back for the sake of morality.
- TheTick0
I'm down with the Feds controlling the kiddie porn stuff. That's sick. Some hard core liberals need to take a step back for the sake of morality.
JazX
(Jan 20 06, 07:25)
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Good point...and you know what gets lost in the "big government"/"small government" rhetoric that these politicos thropw around is that , you know, I don't care what size it is, I just want it to be a s competent as possible. Good and competent, fine. Small and competent, even better.And all these "small government" types seem loathe to admit that you know, there are some things that government CAN do better and more principled than any private enterprise can do.
Bad government, regardless of size is just bad.
- durang0
I love this:
"For instance, it's not unusual for search requests to include names, medical profiles or Social Security information, said Pam Dixon, executive director for the World Privacy Forum."
Nope, wouldn't want the feds to know private info like my name or my social security info, which they issued to me...
again, Google is being a bitch
- JazX0
plenty of bad governments going around, not just the US's. In fact, I'd venture to say that a lot of other bad governments love the fact the Bushie pulls all the attention. They can get away with their little corrupt kingdoms in privacy. less of the how many number of evils concept.
- jevad0
again, Google is being a bitch
durang
(Jan 20 06, 07:34)no, you are