I've been looking into blogging lately, but I still haven't found the right service yet. Blogspot is extremely tempting, but I still really really really don't want to use them because it's a Google service, and I'm worried that some day we may have to literally fight Google in an all-out war for our freedom a decade or two from now. Why can't there be anything just as popular, functional, and free as blogspot but not Google-run? I can't entrust my opinions in a company I expect to literally exchange gunfire with in a decade or two.
Why am I convinced that Google will be the biggest threat to human rights since Adolf Hitler?
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this are what's bothering me. Just look at the way Google protects private information. Or more accurately, how they DON'T. And consider everything else Google does.
They know exactly who you are and what you're interested in, and they have all of that information stored up. They also know exactly who's pirating. If you've ever IN YOUR LIFE, searched for a torrent, or any information about torrenting in the Google search bar, you have been identified personally as a pirate. And think about how much those guys control. They are the center of the internet. Anything you want to find on the net, you Google it. We treat Google like it's the answer to everything, with phrases like "Just fucking Google it." being popular whenever somebody asks a question you can answer with one search. Everybody uses Google. And Google is branching out. They have their own EVERYTHING. They have an email service, a blogging service, a powerpoint service, their own browser, their own calling service to rival Skype now, and their latest abomination, "iGoogle". Perhaps the most frightening, they're making their own fucking operating system.
And look at Google's monopoly. They're not even afraid of China. They implored China to stop censoring search results. But this stance for internet freedom, however ballsy it may be, is just a ruse. Google
wants to put an end to net neutrality, and lord knows they may very well have the money and power to do it some day. Google's never going to have their own economic problems. They'll just keep amassing more and more money. Google could eventually replace Microsoft and Apple on the computer market, with their own systems that will probably log every action and every document you write even if you're not on a browser. Google could put an end to net neutrality and take over the internet. Google could tell the government who's been pirating, and give them enough evidence to prosecute all of them. Google could amass enough income to raise an army bigger than the one the USA has, and just plain conquer us the old-fashioned way.
Am I just crazy and paranoid? And if so, somebody tell me how. I'm putting this in General Chat instead of Elitist Debate because I suspect that it'll be treated like any other crackpot theory I've ever had, but I'm bothering to type it AT ALL because I really want somebody here to prove me wrong. I don't WANT to believe that Google is this dangerous, but it's really hard for me not to.
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