Shattering of an illusion that scroogle.org has tried to tell us about for so long: Google is evil, like all the rest of them.
http://www.scroogle.org/gifs/gscrew.gif
Some alternatives to searching, which I think is the most dangerous tool to lose your privacy on: https://duckduckgo.com/ https://www.ixquick.com/ and of course http://scroogle.org/ that has many SSL-solutions, depending on your OS.
No, but seriously, these people are coming back for mandatory censorship as soon as the elections are decided in their favor. Please, do not let them get back into power after having showed their true colors.
Capitalism works because it relies on forcing people to become greedy and punishing the minority that doesn't.
Fixed that for ya.
Since you also acknowledge that greed is not a good thing, why would you want to support a system that is BUILT ON GREED?
For myself, I would like to see a system that would punish greedy people for the advantage of the meek. NOT the other way around.
What's the problem in making people dumber?
If the people are dumber, they'll be more easily manipulated and that saves a lot of money from the Big Media persuading people!
The big companies don't want smart consumers, they want consumers that buy - governments don't want smart citizens criticising bad developments either. Ignorance is bliss, and a strength too, just not for us regular sheeplings.
I really do NOT like people, who think that articles, (pretty much ALL news) that increase our awareness are a waste of time. It pisses me off even more, that these same morons do NOT realise that they, and they're opinions have been effected. If you're feeling impotent and powerless, please do not try to spread that kind of feebleness. It's depressing and a lie to tell people that they are powerless.
For example, I read this on slashdot, paste the news to a dozen IRC-channels and make a lot of people grasp the idea of Google's draconian EULAs. Engineering opinions is neverending and DEFINITELY worth doing. Please carry on spreading information.
Don't forget that after one can vote from home, or better yet, cellphone, votes can be sold MUCH easier. I don't think blackmail is out of question either.
Also, once daddy has made up his mind who the family is voting for, he can observe his family-members vote for the 'right' candidate.
It is still necessary to go to give your vote in a voting booth and for the sake of democracy, I suggest that voting should remain as easy and uncomplicated as it is. This is one of the only things I pride myself on being conservative of.
For example a document that goes by the name "Railaksen Selvitys" and dated 2005-12-16 lists several critical problems and unanswered questions regarding the censorship. These problems are listed in the very beginning of the document and include things like effectiveness of the filtering solutions, the problem of collateral damage when censorship affects more material than it should, freedom of speech, what kind of crimes the censorship should exactly target, etc. Most of these went unanswered and the problems are seen with the current implementation of the censorship. Some of the issues were only addressed partially, for example the freedom of speech regarding reception of illegal material was touched but the police has now been found censoring even sites that do not contain illegal material themselves. What is being practiced now isn't what was planned.
This isn't the first time that a site has been wrongly blocked; at least for a period in the past the lapsiporno.info site protesting against the filtering, maintained by Matti Nikki, was blocked. (NB. 'Lapsiporno' is 'child pornography' in Finnish, but the Lapsiporno.info site has nothing to do with pornography, or indeed any other sordid materials)"
The first time, it's a KLUDGE! The second, a trick. Later, it's a well-established technique! -- Mike Broido, Intermetrics
