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Comment Re:So.... (Score 1) 205

by p0ntus (#36910178) Attached to: Google Announces Google CDN

At what point are we going to just throw our hands up and allow google to control every aspect of our internet experience?

So far:

-Dominating search -Branching off into the world of ISPs (with their new fiber in Ohio) -DNS -Hosting/CDN -Browser -Social Media -Image hosting -Email -Chat/Video/Phone

The way things are going, they will literally become the internet. Everything single page request you make will involve google in some way...

As it stands, I'm pretty sure 90% of the websites I go to have at least one js request, whether it be from adsense or analytics...

Having a single corporation controlling the internet scares me. Don't forget, Google is a corporation and cares more about profit than anything else.

You forgot cloud computing with Google Docs.
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Tens of Thousands Protest In Cairo, Twitter Blocked 167

Posted by timothy from the lol-cats-won't-save-you dept.
Haffner writes "Protests in Cairo, Egypt have now reached the tens of thousands. Police have deployed water cannons and tear gas. I am writing this live from Cairo, where I witnessed a throng of 1000-3000 march towards Tahrir Square in downtown Cairo. I also witnessed 300-500 protesting on one of the bridges heading downtown. Most importantly, twitter has been blocked by many national carriers." Why Twitter? As reader pinkushun writes "Using Twitter and Facebook, the people instigated a series of fast-moving, rapidly shifting demos across half a dozen or more Egyptian cities. The police could not keep up – and predictably, resorted to violence. Sadly this has led to three known deaths thus far." Update: 01/26 02:05 GMT by T : Jake Appelbaum is tweeting up a storm about the state of the active filters.

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