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I have a lot of respect for Google and perhaps I am just misunderstanding your point. Are you trying to say "People brave enough to face battalions of armed pol
by ajju 16y ago
I have a lot of respect for Google and perhaps I am just misunderstanding your point. Are you trying to say "People brave enough to face battalions of armed police while protesting against a totalitarian regime are very common in Google"?
I hope that is the case but it would be hard to provide objective proof of that.
I think there is another, better justification for naming Google in this story and that is - they risked acting against their self interest by creating the call-to-tweet tool for the protesters in Egypt. It used to be accepted practice for corporations to 'stay out' of foreign issues that don't directly impact them and Google had the cojones to side-step accepted practice in favor of what is right. Then again, Twitter and Facebook have taken similar actions in the past.
This is not to minimize the positive contributions these companies made, but it is not the same as facing armed police at great personal risk.