Google is freaking me out.

[bobabode]

Originally Posted by Bigerik

Of course! It's only evil if the government does it. As long as someone is making a buck off it, all is good!

What's the difference? Are you from Ottawah?

[bhunter]

Originally Posted by bobabode

What's the difference? Are you from Ottawah?

Big difference: one can compel one to act the other can't. Even the largest corporations have power that pales in comparison to the government. One can always not participate in the corporate case, but one has no choice but to participate in the government case. There are alternatives to google that one can use if not satisfied with their privacy policies.

[Charles]

Originally Posted by bhunter

Big difference: one can compel one to act the other can't. Even the largest corporations have power that pales in comparison to the government. One can always not participate in the corporate case, but one has no choice but to participate in the government case. There are alternatives to google that one can use if not satisfied with their privacy policies.

Corporations have a long history of using the government as their enforcer.

Which only adds credence to your argument. A corporation, by it's nature, cannot hold a gun to your head without government complicity.

The government, by it's nature, can hold a gun to your head anytime it has the desire to.

Myself, just being a dunderhead from Bugtussell, I figure that if you can limit the control the government can exert over you, you also limit the control that the unholy alliance of a corporation in collusion with the government can exert over you as well.

Chas

[bobabode]

Originally Posted by Charles

Corporations have a long history of using the government as their enforcer.

Which only adds credence to your argument. A corporation, by it's nature, cannot hold a gun to your head without government complicity.

The government, by it's nature, can hold a gun to your head anytime it has the desire to.

Myself, just being a dunderhead from Bugtussell, I figure that if you can limit the control the government can exert over you, you also limit the control that the unholy alliance of a corporation in collusion with the government can exert over you as well.

Chas

paraphrasing Abe Hoffman again I see.

[stereorob2.0]

fucking google, what a bunch of shit! they shouldnt be allowed to do such crap to us.