walt
06-10-2007, 08:30 PM
There is a disagreement on privacy in the news this weekend between Google and Privacy International. You can read this elsewhere.
Google is evil not because it is liberal, but because of it's business tactics. It is hard to see, until you see them up close. Prediction: Google/CNN will attempt to migrate the best of Ron Paul's ideas to a Democratic candidate via directed questions during the July 23, 2007 Democratic debate. How can we stop this?
Here is one summary of how Google acts http://blog.insiderchatter.com/2007/06/10/google-the-great-intimidator/:
Google’s public communications strategy mirrors political campaign strategies, negative ones. Google strives to win by shooting down supposed opponents, rather than bolstering its own case. The sad situation is, however, that it is not only competitors that Google plays its masterful spin games with, Google treats anyone and anything that does not embrace Google, and its own Google-centric vision of the future Google world, as an opponent to be neutralized.
Google CEO Eric Schmidt recently demonstrated his unwillingness to communicate openly and directly with the public at, ironically, the Personal Democracy Forum, “paid for (sponsored by) Google”!
As top sponsor of the all-day event, Google had opening keynote honors. Schmidt used his podium to wax poetic about how Google is a force for open democracy in the world. When it came time for him to put his words into action, though, he did a typical Google about face.
During his not so open Q & A, Schmidt refused to take questions from any person in the audience who did not “pay” to attend the event. On its face, the Google CEO was indicating that “Personal Democracy” is up for sale, but his ultimate end-game was to prevent press from posing any questions to him.
Irony of ironies, I had my hand raised to ask Schmidt why the NYC Googleplex has cut off media access to the Google openhouse public “Speaker Series.” What’s more, Google is even insisting that “civilians” allowed to attend the Google showcase of its best and brightest not even blog about a single word that was said, by Google.
How can you stop this? Start by voting for the Digg below.
Google is evil not because it is liberal, but because of it's business tactics. It is hard to see, until you see them up close. Prediction: Google/CNN will attempt to migrate the best of Ron Paul's ideas to a Democratic candidate via directed questions during the July 23, 2007 Democratic debate. How can we stop this?
Here is one summary of how Google acts http://blog.insiderchatter.com/2007/06/10/google-the-great-intimidator/:
Google’s public communications strategy mirrors political campaign strategies, negative ones. Google strives to win by shooting down supposed opponents, rather than bolstering its own case. The sad situation is, however, that it is not only competitors that Google plays its masterful spin games with, Google treats anyone and anything that does not embrace Google, and its own Google-centric vision of the future Google world, as an opponent to be neutralized.
Google CEO Eric Schmidt recently demonstrated his unwillingness to communicate openly and directly with the public at, ironically, the Personal Democracy Forum, “paid for (sponsored by) Google”!
As top sponsor of the all-day event, Google had opening keynote honors. Schmidt used his podium to wax poetic about how Google is a force for open democracy in the world. When it came time for him to put his words into action, though, he did a typical Google about face.
During his not so open Q & A, Schmidt refused to take questions from any person in the audience who did not “pay” to attend the event. On its face, the Google CEO was indicating that “Personal Democracy” is up for sale, but his ultimate end-game was to prevent press from posing any questions to him.
Irony of ironies, I had my hand raised to ask Schmidt why the NYC Googleplex has cut off media access to the Google openhouse public “Speaker Series.” What’s more, Google is even insisting that “civilians” allowed to attend the Google showcase of its best and brightest not even blog about a single word that was said, by Google.
How can you stop this? Start by voting for the Digg below.