Saturday, February 28, 2015
"We screw our users"
Surprise, surprise.
Google’s Blogger reversed itself –
and now we can distrust and despise Google even more than we did already.
Sure, Blogger is a free service from Google. So, that means we
should be grateful?
To the contrary. Once lured into Google’s trap, who wants to continue using a service offered by a company that clearly believes it is acceptable to use devious, hate-filled gestapo tactics in dealing with its online public. More to the point, Google’s fatuous, feckless, self-important engineers in Mountain View should not be determining the fate of anything.
To the contrary. Once lured into Google’s trap, who wants to continue using a service offered by a company that clearly believes it is acceptable to use devious, hate-filled gestapo tactics in dealing with its online public. More to the point, Google’s fatuous, feckless, self-important engineers in Mountain View should not be determining the fate of anything.
All of us should have known, more than a decade ago, when
Google formally adopted the corporate motto “Don’t be evil,” that it would eventually do exactly the opposite.
New motto: “We screw our users.”
Google is hell-bent on tossing any shred of intellectual and moral integrity it ever had. It thinks it will be rewarded for pandering to the regressive, intolerant, repressive agenda of ignorant conservatives. Not gonna happen.
New motto: “We screw our users.”
Google is hell-bent on tossing any shred of intellectual and moral integrity it ever had. It thinks it will be rewarded for pandering to the regressive, intolerant, repressive agenda of ignorant conservatives. Not gonna happen.
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Yahoo! News
Blogger Help Forum
Censorship plan
abandoned after three days
ConsumerAffairs.com
Summary: While you
were busy freaking out about government surveillance, censorship blossomed at
the one corporation that has the most power to fight -- or enable --
suppression of speech: Google.
ZDnet
Google's crackdown
on adult content hosted on Blogger is not about illegal content, but simply
content they don't like
The Independent
Blogger, the
company’s long-running blogging service, is cracking down on explicit material
with just one month’s notice for affected users
The Guardian
The Guardian
Mashable
Wednesday, February 25, 2015
Not one of you will speak out, will you?
First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak
out—
out—
Because I was not a Socialist.
Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not
speak out—
Because I was not a Trade Unionist.
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for me—
and there was no one left to speak for me.
~ Martin Niemöller (1892–1984)
