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South Bend, IN | So I guess the whole Google is out to save the children is out the window now?
Big business will always be big business here in the good old USA!! |
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Re: leave said by monk :
leave it alone when some tries to fix something that works they will mess it up like this don't worry taxes are good for you
Google's blog post did a good job of laying out all the things their critics got wrong. You need to keep government out if a company is going to make a profit.
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Re: So said by gball:I guess the whole Google is out to save the children is out the window now? That was a PR initiative and nothing more. "Google the Good" was an ad campaign and that was all it ever was.
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South Bend, IN | I was just being sarcastic...a lot of people have this impression that Google is for the good of the people and not like other big business's.
i couldnt say if that came from a commercial or not just something i have noticed in comments etc over time. |
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| Stay on the case ! Good work bird-dogging Google on this.
I have also discussed this at
»tahoeblue.wordpress.com/2010/08/···llerman/
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1 edit | 5 groups protesting at Google friday »www.pcworld.com/article/203178/Five left-leaning groups that want the U.S. government to create formal network neutrality rules are organizing a rally to protest a recent proposal by Google and Verizon Communications at Google's headquarters in Mountain View, California, Friday. Organizers of the protest, including Free Press and MoveOn.org, hope that it will convince Google, which has long voiced support for net neutrality, to abandon the joint proposal with Verizon. Organizers of the rally at Google's headquarters are urging the FCC to "not let Google be evil," in form letters circulating since Google and Verizon released their proposal.
P.S.>> organizers are ColorofChange.org, Credo Action, MoveOn.org, Free Press and the Progressive Change Campaign Committee.
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Re: So Google, up until this point, had been a contrast between what I'll call business as usual. Yes, Google always wanted to make money -- they are a business. However, when they did so it didn't make us customers/users feel like we had to take a shower after doing so. You know, the car dealer shower? Now, we may start needing a shower... |
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| said by morbo:Google, up until this point, had been a contrast between what I'll call business as usual. Yes, Google always wanted to make money -- they are a business. However, when they did so it didn't make us customers/users feel like we had to take a shower after doing so. You know, the car dealer shower? Now, we may start needing a shower... All the while happily mining your information for every drop they could sell off to anybody. They were never "good" or "different" they just had a really good brand manager who duped a bunch of people into thinking they were different.
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00000 | No one cares about mined info except the super paranoid. It's a legitimate trade off -- free or near free experience for them mining our data.
And yes, Google was good and better than the rest. Go back and read. This change is a significant move away from that path. If it makes you feel smarter than everyone else for not believing Google was different then go nuts. |
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2 edits | Google Voice Search.. Who cares!?!?!?! Did you guys see the new Google Voice Search App!!! It's frickin awesome!
I've been sending texts and doing damn near everything without typing a single word typed! This is awesome!
Well.. okay this is an important issue too.. 
I sent a letter to Google demanding they stop this crap.. Letters have been sent to the FCC and other important political figures to get this crap straightened out.
While I do like Google, I think under no circumstances should any large company get to make up regulatory rules, period.
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kudos:5 | said by TCub:Who cares!?!?!?! Did you guys see the new Google Voice Search App!!! It's frickin awesome! It is available on my iPad and works very well. Very cool app.
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said by TCub:While I do like Google, I think under no circumstances should any large company get to make up regulatory rules, period. They didn't MAKE the rules. All they did was suggest what they SHOULD be. That is what lobbying is all about. The FCC & Congress get to MAKE the rules.
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Didn't know it was on iPad. I'll have to check it out! Thanks for the heads up.
@MMH.. Right I understand that.. but they're passing these rules off as what they're going to/should follow.. Suggestion or not.. just leave it to a third party to ensure everything is kept fair and honost. |
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Re: 5 groups protesting at Google friday yeah i keep getting emails from credo. They no doubt purchased my name from MoveOn.
What irony. |
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Re: leave said by Linklist: You need to keep government out if a company is going to make a huge profit, and screw consumers Fixed it for ya |
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Re: Google Voice Search.. said by Linklist:said by TCub:While I do like Google, I think under no circumstances should any large company get to make up regulatory rules, period. They didn't MAKE the rules. All they did was suggest what they SHOULD be. That is what lobbying is all about. The FCC & Congress get to MAKE the rules. You of all people show know how it works, having been part of the whole lobbying problem.
Oh, and I thought you didn't believe that the FCC had any power to make rules? |
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Re: leave Man you are just begging for the government to come regulate the internet, aren't you. Net Neutrality will be used to foreclose opportunity and possible competition, not guarantee it, just like radio, just like early television, just like cable, just like the early telephone system.
You are begging for someone to come and cripple the services you like, and leave only the largest giants standing, but you're too young and stupid to actually read any history, because MTV knows better. |
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Re: Google Voice Search.. Oh well, I'm sure they'll get right on it then. Maybe we can get Nancy Pelosi to suspend going on vacation to take this important business up since you're sending a letter to "important political figures" and (gag) the FCC? |
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