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

[Suresh Ramasubramanian]

Now what do we do if more people agree with google than they do with various detractors of google?  Note ., people who have criticised google on occasion, and people who have rather more brains than to fall for the first petition that comes their way, from google, or from a civil society group.

--srs (iPad)

On 04-Dec-2012, at 23:27, "michael gurstein" <gurstein at gmail.com> wrote:

> Yes, you (and I) may agree (with the ends) this time, and the next, and
> maybe the time after that but eventually there may be no (democratic)
> political process left. All we have as a political process is a mass on-line
> mobilization by one self-serving Internet quasi-monopoly or another. Is that
> something that you would agree with?  
> 
> M
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: McTim [mailto:dogwallah at gmail.com] 
> Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2012 9:05 AM
> To: governance at lists.igcaucus.org; michael gurstein
> Cc: Adam Peake
> Subject: Re: [governance] More... Google: "Internet Freedom!"... (to do
> whatever it pleases and serves its business interests?
> 
> 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.
> 
> 
> --
> Cheers,
> 
> McTim
> "A name indicates what we seek. An address indicates where it is. A route
> indicates how we get there."  Jon Postel
> 
> 
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