Thursday, November 10, 2005

Thoughts on Google, WalMart & Freedom of Speech

Google's business is the dissemination of information, or rather, the freedom it offers it's user, to desseminate said information. While the information is "passed" arround, we see advertisements galore, obtrusive or not, yet the info moves freely, thereby increasing our freedom considerably to new bounds. Quite a product actually, and now reason for companies such as Walmart to be upset, so much so, that they have created "war rooms" to counter "charges" by various critics. Walmart's displeasure with Google's product of "freedom of information" which is paid for, of course, by corporate advertising dollars, ironically, maintains the notion that "nothing is free." Corporate fear of freedom of information is anti-democratic by definition and symptomatic of a more troubling issue. which is that morality alone is the only constrant against such a powerful company run amuk.................................. Food for thought? Doesn't Sam's Club sell that?

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