Comments on Schmidt Foot-In-Mouth Attack Continues
· foolishness, Google, privacy, society
There are so many people who don't emotionally...
Anonymous ยท 2010-08-17T13:35:30.251000
There are so many people who don't emotionally understand that putting something on the net is commanding a computer to serve it to anyone, anywhere... I'm glad Google is making shocking/wacky statements that drive the point home instead of sugarcoated, ignorable corporatese.
I get frustrated when people blame Google for eroding the "privacy" of information that has been published with the most effective publication technology in the universe's known history. People need to understand and remember that the internet is deeply, inherently, fundamentally public. Google didn't make it that way, and Google can't unmake it.
(Now, it's possible to protect information under password-protected accounts etc., and questions about whether that protection will be bungled by the stewards of the data are legitimate. But so often "privacy issues" discussions this are purely about information that was made public in the first place.)
So Google may sound silly, but maybe that's what people need to hear - how the only alternatives to learning discretion on the internet are ridiculous.
There are so many people who don't emotionally...
Anonymous ยท 2010-08-17T13:35:30.251000
There are so many people who don't emotionally understand that putting something on the net is commanding a computer to serve it to anyone, anywhere... I'm glad Google is making shocking/wacky statements that drive the point home instead of sugarcoated, ignorable corporatese.I get frustrated when people blame Google for eroding the "privacy" of information that has been published with the most effective publication technology in the universe's known history. People need to understand and remember that the internet is deeply, inherently, fundamentally public. Google didn't make it that way, and Google can't unmake it.
(Now, it's possible to protect information under password-protected accounts etc., and questions about whether that protection will be bungled by the stewards of the data are legitimate. But so often "privacy issues" discussions this are purely about information that was made public in the first place.)
So Google may sound silly, but maybe that's what people need to hear - how the only alternatives to learning discretion on the internet are ridiculous.
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