Jubbergun wrote:
Laelia wrote:
Good article
here. Google is very afraid of Facebook.
I kind of wonder how "Hi, we're GOOGLE, and we'd like to take over as the big dog in social networking" is going to play off the federal government's "Hi, we're THE FEDERAL MOTHER-FUCKING GOVERNMENT, and we're looking at your big, fat ass for anti-trust shit?"
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Jubber
The worst thing they could do is make Google break up it's entities (search, social networking, docs, mail, and chat).
Really, the government won't try to do anything like that until Google really pisses them off. I mean...they already don't like Google because Google won't hand over all the search data they have on the likes of you and me. You know, because the government wants that shit to "root out terrorism"...you know...like if you search "how to make a pipe bomb" the government wants to know so they can black bag you and send you off to Gitmo.
Google's power is a cause for concern though. Especially with them exploring high speed internet connections "Google Fiberoptics" or whatever it's called. Of all the companies on the internet, Google has the biggest potential to literally "own" the internet.
In this life we're screwed no matter what we do. It will either be the government taking away our freedoms, or the corporations doing the same thing and shoving adds and products down our throats.
I just hope I'm dead before it all starts to burn.