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Skybird · 01-13-10, 03:43 PM

Do not read too much into it. Google'S business inchina went bad, with little market shares. Google also tries to boost its global image, since it wants to beef up business by selling its own hardware that should be used to use their services even more. The hacking by the chinese is just the excuse to turn their back on a market in china that did not hold what it promised, but came at the cost of a PR desaster (Google voluntarily self-censored itself etc etc).

so, this decision of Google has nothing to do with good inetention and noble motives, and it certainly is not Google'S "finest moment". It's pure business decision. human rights and censorship plays no role at all in it.

Google is a data kraken that accumulates power by that that has no traditi9nal public or poltical legitimation at all. And as the German minstrre of jutsice just has pointed out soem days ago, it creates a massive, market-dominating monopole, almost onconfronted, while aggressively pushing ahead, creating precedneces that even break laws - and then see if they get away with it and can use this breaking of laws as a precedence for excusing even further pushing ahead. After all, privacy protection is unknown to them, and in America in general, awareness for privacy data protection is underdeveloped, to put it mildly, compared to EU laws.

For search terms that in any way one day could eventually be used against me in the widest range of possible contexts, I have stopped to use Google a longer while ago. Google Chrome is a big no-no, and despite Google earth I neither use nor support any Google services - especially not those where registration would be needed or data on my system and my internet behavior flows back to Google (especially true for Chrome), to get stored there for decades to come, without me having any knowledge abbout and access to these data sets, and where they are going and to whom they are being made available.

So, no finest moment of Google it is, Neal. It just is a business decision. Ideals have nothing, really nothing to do with it - else they would have done itmonths if not years earlier - or would never have agreed in the first to chinese conditions.

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Skybird Soaring Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: the mental asylum named Germany Posts: 42,663 Downloads: 10 Uploads: 0	Do not read too much into it. Google'S business inchina went bad, with little market shares. Google also tries to boost its global image, since it wants to beef up business by selling its own hardware that should be used to use their services even more. The hacking by the chinese is just the excuse to turn their back on a market in china that did not hold what it promised, but came at the cost of a PR desaster (Google voluntarily self-censored itself etc etc). so, this decision of Google has nothing to do with good inetention and noble motives, and it certainly is not Google'S "finest moment". It's pure business decision. human rights and censorship plays no role at all in it. Google is a data kraken that accumulates power by that that has no traditi9nal public or poltical legitimation at all. And as the German minstrre of jutsice just has pointed out soem days ago, it creates a massive, market-dominating monopole, almost onconfronted, while aggressively pushing ahead, creating precedneces that even break laws - and then see if they get away with it and can use this breaking of laws as a precedence for excusing even further pushing ahead. After all, privacy protection is unknown to them, and in America in general, awareness for privacy data protection is underdeveloped, to put it mildly, compared to EU laws. For search terms that in any way one day could eventually be used against me in the widest range of possible contexts, I have stopped to use Google a longer while ago. Google Chrome is a big no-no, and despite Google earth I neither use nor support any Google services - especially not those where registration would be needed or data on my system and my internet behavior flows back to Google (especially true for Chrome), to get stored there for decades to come, without me having any knowledge abbout and access to these data sets, and where they are going and to whom they are being made available. So, no finest moment of Google it is, Neal. It just is a business decision. Ideals have nothing, really nothing to do with it - else they would have done itmonths if not years earlier - or would never have agreed in the first to chinese conditions. __________________ If you feel nuts, consult an expert.