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A Net of Control
Unthinkable: How the Internet could become a tool of corporate and government power, based on updates now in the works
Christoph Niemann for Newsweek
Issues 2004 - Picture, if you will, an information infrastructure that encourages censorship, surveillance and suppression of the creative impulse. Where anonymity is outlawed and every penny spent is accounted for. Where the powers that be can smother subversive (or economically competitive) ideas in the cradle, and no one can publish even a laundry list without the imprimatur of Big Brother. Some prognosticators are saying that such a construct is nearly inevitable. And this infrastructure is none other than the former paradise of rebels and free-speechers: the Internet.
" We are moving to a Google that knows more about you."
— Google CEO Eric Schmidt, speaking to financial analysts,
February 9, 2005, as quoted in the New York Times the next day
Originally posted by Unisol
what the...we know google is bad now why the site hase this google search ats bar?aint that....bad?
Originally posted by Cosmocow
why on google earth if you choose New Orleans it is imagry pre Katrina???
the same with Baghdad......Iraq????
Originally posted by roadgravel
Don't you think it costs a bit of money for the aerial picture providers to rephotography an area? For a free service, isn't that asking alot.
Edit: typo
[edit on 3/30/2007 by roadgravel]
Originally posted by Cosmocow
i wouldnt have asked the question if not months afer katrina there were post katrina images on there where you could see demolished houses, blue tarps, etc. Do you think they went back to pre-katrina to not show how poorly the clean up operation is or the funding isnt enough??
I can understand with Iraq since we have troops there.....
They has post tsunami images....why....becuase it is not the US??