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Being Google

8 pointsby abdophotoabout 12 years ago

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jholmanabout 12 years ago
Hear, hear.<p>People make hilarious claims about how Google has "gone evil". Hilarious. And often, backed up by completely delusional models of how law enforcement works, or how Google engineering works, etc. You're not a happy user, fine, that's a reasonable stance, but to say that that makes Google Evil is, in almost every case, insane.<p>On the other hand, I really agree that<p>&#62; <i>The interesting question isn’t “Is Google evil?” (answer: not particularly) but “What’s the downside if Google suddenly becomes evil?</i>