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Originally Posted by iwantchixx
If this is true (and that's a big IF) then this is good news for us.
Why is it good for us?
If it's ever proved to be true and if banned account-holders are able to successfully prove this was done to them, it opens Google up to further repercussions and investigations which in turn, set a precedent for the ability to pursue lost earnings and damages from/due to companies who "shave" or ban/close accounts with intentions of avoiding payouts.
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You'd like to think that but Google are above the law now, they've spent a lot of money in Washington lobbying to further their interests
Google are now masters of lobbying and exerting influence, really interesting article about it in the Washington Post
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Originally Posted by iwantchixx
However, I doubt any large-scale press will ever pursue this in fear of Google's lawyers slapping them, hard, or even better, de-indexing them and all associated entities from their search products.
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Exactly!
German Media Exec ?Afraid Of Google?
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Mathias Dopfner, chief executive of Axel Springer, Europe?s biggest newspaper publisher by circulation. In an open letter to Google published Wednesday in a German newspaper not published by Axel Springer, Dopfner also said: ?We are afraid of Google. I must say this so clearly and honestly since scarcely one of my colleagues dares to do this publicly. And as the biggest of the small fry, we must perhaps be the first to speak plainly in this debate.?
Dopfner?s letter was a response to a recent column (in the same newspaper, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung) by Google Chairman Eric Schmidt that warned against heavy-handed European regulations he said would hinder innovation. Schmidt mentioned the Silicon Valley company?s improved advertising relationship with Axel Springer. But Dopfner reportedly wrote that his company had no choice but to do business with Google because of its dominance in search.
The European Union has been looking into antitrust allegations against Google search for years, a tentative deal was reached earlier this year.
In his letter, the Axel Springer CEO also took aim at Facebook?s Mark Zuckerberg and Google?s Larry Page, blasting the two CEOs on their stances on privacy, and criticizing Google?s many projects. Of Page, he said: ?He dreams of a place with no privacy laws and without democratic accountability.?
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This is what Google think about your privacy
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Privacy will become a quaint memory. ?If you have something that you don?t want anyone to know,? Schmidt famously said in 2009, ?maybe you shouldn?t be doing it [online] in the first place.? So Google elects itself supreme moral arbiter.
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Honestly if that was a quote from the Stasi secret police would you be surprised?
It's funny in a way because posters on this forum bitch and cry about piracy and everything being given away for free but that's exactly what Google has done, they gave you free Search, free Video (YouTube), free Social Network (Google+), free email (Gmail), free OS (Android), free storage (Drive), the list goes on and on and all they ask for in return is
EVERYTHING about you!
A complete digital version of yourself, any thought or opinion you've ever had in your life and it's owned by Google!
FREE is deep rooted into everyone's conscience, the problem is no one realises just exactly what they've given up. We haven't just given up our privacy, we're giving away the window to our souls.
Anyway what is my point? I'm not surprised that Google is abusing their position, my concern and everyone's concern should be about how they'll be abusing their power in the future when they build up ever more sophisticated digital avatars of their users.
They've already purchased the AI company DeepMind, they've got Google Glass rolling out and they're working with Quantum computers atm
We're headed towards a very dark place in the not too distant future, a future where the big corporations and government know more about you than you do
