[governance] More... Google: "Internet Freedom!"... (to do whatever it pleases and serves its business interests?

[Mawaki Chango]

On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 12:05 PM, McTim <dogwallah at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 11:32 AM, michael gurstein <gurstein at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Adam, the issue is not the new/old business models (and I have no
> particular
> > bias one way or another for old or new enterprises or their business
> > models--and to be clear I sincerely admire and appreciate Google as a
> > company, their products, their highly competent and effective staff and
> > spokespeople, and their overall demeanour).
> >
> > What is important, as the Spiegel article is pointing to, is the way in
> > which Google is using its market strength (and one should say, their
> overall
> > new media savvy) to attempt to manipulate political processes.
>
>
> Because something is also self-serving, it doesn't make it the wrong
> thing to do.
>

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'?

Mawaki


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>
> McTim
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