Re: Googee

[adrian suri]

and I assume if you do a seach on google, say on Orwellianizing +
humanitarian you get this list back

http://groups.google.co.uk/groups?q=Orwellianizing+%2B+humanitarian&start=0&filter=0

my god how many lists did you post this to, you can hardly turn around
and complain, and also I thought posting a note on a news group, made it
defacto public domain! though I might be wrong on this

Adrian

woo wrote:
> I'd like to complain about Google for Orwellianizing the masses (entire world) with its Groups Beta product. DejaNews began
> archiving usenet in 1995 and a lot of people raised their voices at the time for privacy. Google purchased DejaNews in 2001 and
> remained the primary corporate archiver of usenet. Until 1995 usenet was archived by Universities and moderate access was given to
> the public at large. A usenet forum is like a 'net hangout' on a specific topic of interest, in a way like a 'net street' where
> people can subscribe and hang out. By Google archiving usenet as a whole globally, and providing unprecedented access, it is exactly
> like Orwellian cameras applied to the streets of the net, a deep human rights and humanitarian violation of dignity. Not only full
> privacy cannot be solved technologically with the privacy features Google applies, but a company forces a membership, a membership
> nobody signed an agreement with. What Google offers to the public is a unilateral emposed uncompetitive environment, creating a
> reliance to all who turn to usenet with a personal, private interest questions to have their privacy ignored molested, and if a
> privacy problem develops, having to turn to customer services of a company they never signed an agreement with, humiliated, cheated,
> offended. The Groups Beta product is absolutely illegal in a consumer sense. Google not only acts as a pirate with usenet, but
> recently they scanned millions of books from public libraries without checking for copyrights. They expect to build a similar piracy
> on the net with millions of books expecting writers to turn to a company to resolve copyright, a company they never signed an
> agreement with. Google goes to the limits and criminally violates human rights.
>
>