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> ... Google, Facebook and their ilk ... usually don't destroy hard drives of journalists or don't detain people as a matter of harrassment just to name two re
by route66 13y ago
> ... Google, Facebook and their ilk
... usually don't destroy hard drives of journalists or don't detain people as a matter of harrassment just to name two recent actions undertaken by governments who use their introspective powers to take conclusions ("we have to have this Miranda guy") and act upon them ("we know he's in Berlin. Check the flight records")
The point is that the control of the governments does not seem to work anymore OR, at the same time addressing that "Big Brother is loved": nobody cares, because governmental agencies do the right thing. (That is my impression until now, living in Europe)
- pron 13y ago> ... usually don't destroy hard drives of journalists or don't detain people as a matter of harrassment I actually remember a similar action taken by Apple (though through the use of a government agency). But bear in mind that corporations' rights to employ violence have been taken from them, but only after they'd been put to good use. They had a long history of terrorizing and killing people (in the US it was during the days of the Pinkertons), and Google is already more powerful today than the robber barons ever were. If government is weakened enough, corporations will gladly fill the void.