OT: Hands Off Google!

[Siri Amrit Kaur]

On Thursday 02 February 2006 12:21 pm, Daniel P. Stasinski kindly wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-02-02 at 10:53 -0700, Randy Melder wrote:
> > What's really sad is that if it were Microsoft agreeing to censorship,
> > you'd be all over them... for some reason, Google gets a pass? Why?
>
> I find myself in the same boat, and not sure of the reasons.  Perhaps
> it's the perception that Microsoft's goal is to dominate the world -vs-
> Google, who only wants to be the greatest thing since sliced cheese,
> block cheese and cheese in a can.
>
> Then again, perhaps it's the perceived difference between the barbarian
> busting down the door and the barbarian who knocks on the door, smiles,
> and then gets invited in.  In the end they're still barbarians.
>
> I like Google's stance on "Do No Evil" but then I always look back to a
> great quote by C.S. Lewis:
>
> "Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may
> be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons
> than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may
> sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those
> who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do
> so with the approval of their own conscience... To be 'cured' against
> one's will and cured of states which we may not regard as disease is to
> be put on a level with those who have not yet reached the age of
> reason... You start being 'kind' to people before you have considered
> their rights, and then force upon them supposed kindnesses which they in
> fact had a right to refuse, and finally kindnesses which no one but you
> will recognize as kindnesses and which the recipient will feel as
> abominable cruelties."
>
> It applies in a highly vague sence.
>
> I love what Google offers, but I am wary.
>
> Daniel

Nice quote; Lewis was a smart man. More people in the last century were 
murdered by their governments under social utopian plans that were instituted 
for "the People's own good" than under any other systems of government.

Siri Amrit
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