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I think the point of this comment is that the only one with either the foresight or the courage to stand up to Google at the time, and to take a position that a

I think the point of this comment is that the only one with either the foresight or the courage to stand up to Google at the time, and to take a position that a lot of people in the US now have, was an Iranian government official. Because of so much bad history, bad relations, and bad portrayal of Iran this is ironic, and suggests either a deeper wisdom on their side, or even more likely, a better familiarity with tyranny. If anything the ambassador should have seen its vast surveillance potential, but still he spoke out against the company.

fit2rule 9y ago
.. it also highlights the relative naivete - nay, ignorance - of many in the West for just how close we live to despotism, tyranny and corruption in our own sphere, and - more importantly - just how rapidly these failings can be exploited by institutions with nefarious intentions. We in the West have got to stop it with the moral superiority/manifest destiny, and start taking a good look at what it is we're doing to make the future worse, not better. If Iran can point it out, we most certainly can see it for ourselves - but of course we have to get past the superiority hubris which disallows any honest discourse on the subject of how our 'superior' technological societies are actually enslaving us all, not making us better. Case in point - so far in this thread, nobody has had the temerity to point out that Western hubris is the real enemy here.