<br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 12:05 PM, McTim <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dogwallah@gmail.com" target="_blank">dogwallah@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div class="im">On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 11:32 AM, michael gurstein <<a href="mailto:gurstein@gmail.com">gurstein@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> Adam, the issue is not the new/old business models (and I have no particular<br>
> bias one way or another for old or new enterprises or their business<br>
> models--and to be clear I sincerely admire and appreciate Google as a<br>
> company, their products, their highly competent and effective staff and<br>
> spokespeople, and their overall demeanour).<br>
><br>
> What is important, as the Spiegel article is pointing to, is the way in<br>
> which Google is using its market strength (and one should say, their overall<br>
> new media savvy) to attempt to manipulate political processes.<br>
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</div>Because something is also self-serving, it doesn't make it the wrong<br>
thing to do.<br></blockquote><div><br>Not necessarily, indeed, although it doesn't make it necessarily easy either for some potential supporters of that "something" to throw their full-throat support behind the entity doing it. Is this another variation of 'the ends justify the means' -- more precisely, maybe, 'the ends justify the arguments'?<br>
<br>Mawaki<br> <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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Cheers,<br>
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McTim<br>
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