[aklug] Re: Google Evil? Was: Re: I'm an Android

On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 08:15:25PM -0800, Arthur Corliss wrote:
> On Fri, 23 Jul 2010, larry collier wrote:
>
> > Can we lay the google bashing to rest.
>
> Buck up, buckaroo. Christopher asked a legitimate question, and I answered.
> No apologies.
>
> > Everyone has their opinion but anyone firmly believing that google is
> > evil, needs to look at most large oil companies, microsoft, at&t prior
> > to the breakup, hp under Carli (though you could just ay Carli on that
> > one), the railroad companies in the 1880s, newspapers at the turn of the
> > century ( and now also), etc......
>
> :-) At what point did I endorse the robber barons?
>
> > Google does stuff we don't like. It also does stuff we do like. At
> > least I like searching, maps, and others. Get over the china stuff,
> > they obey the legal government of the country. If you want an 'evil' to
> > bash, bash them.
>
> It may not matter to you, but it does to me because it demonstrates the true
> nature of the company. They're founded and operating in the richest (albeit
> hurting) economy in the world. They *choose* to do business in China and
> participate in the suppression of information to aid a corrupt government.
> And that's just the stuff we know about. What kind of reporting on searches
> are they providing the Chinese goverment? How many "dissidents" have been
> arrested because of Google's cooperation? All fair questions.
>
> To be sure, China is glaring example of the character of the company, but
> it's not the only thing I care about. In truth, I'm far more concerned
> about the damage Google is doing to America than I am about China. If
> America falls (or is "transformed") there is no place left to go.
>
> "All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do
> nothing." Edmund Burke
>
> --Arthur Corliss
> Live Free or Die

Arthur has, as usual, expressed it very well and come directly to the
point. Just read his Edmund Burke quote. Let me add an opinion to that:

    "Those who do nothing are NOT good men." Bruce Hill

It matters not to me who considers this OT, but you pascifists who never
do anything but talk better wake up before all the American freedoms are
gone. The Muslim Kenyan Resident in Washington is a pawn, and his job is
to destroy the fabric that America was built upon ... the Constitution and
Bill of Rights. He's doing a darn good job of that!

He wasn't the first, and won't be the last. It matters not which party,
either, as they all do the same thing.

If you're not willing to lay your life down in defense of America, not as
it is heading towards Communism, but from whence it came, you deserve to
come live here in Red China. Your talk without experience is useless,
also. "I think" and "I feel" is nothing against factual information.

Those who only care about the usefulness they get out of companies such as
Microsoft and Google will one day pay for their apathy. You'd better wake
up and read with understanding what Arthur wrote before it's too late ...
"If America falls (or is "transformed") there is no place left to go."

Bruce Hill

-- 
May the Lamb that was slain receive the reward of His suffering!
"Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the
lesson afterward. But properly learned, the lesson forever changes
the man."
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