For Google, nearly all of whose profits depend on advertising revenue, dominance expressed as clickstream traffic is the currency. To maintain that dominance the ‘Don’t Be Evil’ company has been willing to go into business in China despite all evidence of rampant human rights violations, get into bed with the worst phone carrier to rape net neutrality, let its ‘walled backlot’ search become a cesspool of SEO swindlers, collect unauthorized data via illegal WiFi mapping all over the globe, risk exposing private email account data in hopes of capturing social graph info by default, favor its own properties in search results in surreptitious ways and so on.
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patrickjoos said:
Your right to be watchful of Google but I don’t see how search or any tool used to spread information in China can be a bad thing for human rights.
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I do love that this leaves out the fact that the back of every iPod, iPhone, iPad, MacBook, et al says “Assembled in...
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Corporations can’t help themselves.
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And so it begins. Is this the endpoint for all network era companies?
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