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Google's homepage shouldn't have anything to do with politics IMO. Leave it to the organisations that specialise in those sorts of issues.
by ticks 15y ago
Google's homepage shouldn't have anything to do with politics IMO. Leave it to the organisations that specialise in those sorts of issues.
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- mike-cardwell 15y agoExactly. Why do people want yet another hugely rich corporation using their money to interfere in politics? What if Google was pro SOPA? Would you be happy with them advertising for it on their front page? America needs to learn to govern it's self without the intervention of corporations. America doesn't need more of them getting involved.
- scarmig 15y agoThat's very idealistic but isn't really a really good perspective of the situation facing us. Whatever resistance to SOPA that exists in the federal government exists because of some technology companies making very loud noises. Simply saying, "well, corporations shouldn't have a privileged voice in government at all, so we should condemn corporations even when they're arguing on the right side of an issue" is stabbing your allies in the back. Curtailing Google's political activism won't teach America to govern itself without corporations. It will just give the bad guys even less resistance to their agenda. Google maybe shouldn't care about politics. But politics cares about Google. And, moreover, the rest of us. We can start telling Google to GTFO of politics once there are other democratic institutions to take its place. Until then, unilateral disarmament is not an option. The best we can do is remind people that Google is a temporary tactical ally, not some angelic being that does no evil.
- seanp2k2 15y agoI agree and I'd support Google putting a message about SOPA on their homepage. However, the commenter above also has a point in that corporations shouldn't be involved in politics. I'd go a step further and advocate pushing to get ALL the money out of politics. That said, with the way things work at this very moment, anti-SOPA needs all the corporate sponsorship it can get. My hope is that people will once again be the biggest voice in government instead of corporations.
- mseebach 15y ago> What if Google was pro SOPA? Would you be happy with them advertising for it on their front page? You're writing that as if SOPA was one side of an argument where good people could reasonably be on either one side or the other, and HN and Google just happens to be on the same. But it's not, SOPA has a right and a wrong side. We're on the right side, Google is on the right side and good people are either uninformed or on the right side. It's not unreasonable to wish for Google to employ some of their considerable clout in evangelising the right side.
- mike-cardwell 15y ago"My opinion is right because I say it is. Anyone who doesn't hold the same opinion is either bad, or needs educating" Well, that's me convinced.
- burgerbrain 15y agoIf you actually need convincing that SOPA is wrong and are not just being unnecessarily argumentative, then I really don't know what to say to you... Do you know what SOPA is?
- mike-cardwell 15y agoI don't need convincing. I am aware that it is a bad thing. I am also aware that Google getting involved is a bad thing. I am also aware that the people on the other side of the argument aren't necessarily bad or uneducated people like the person I was replying to claimed.
- patrickaljord 15y agoHe didn't say uneducated, just uninformed.
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- zobzu 15y agoso it should just have ads for google master plan's products? :) I would sure like anti SOPA messages from Google. Would give me a warm feeling and a hope for a better future too.