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Saturday 02 September 2017
The Days of Macintosh are OverBrad here. Damn, Glenn Reynolds is right. He observed "I rewatched that famous Apple 1984 commerical, and damned if today’s Silicon Valley doesn’t look just like the bad guys."
I realized that, in all these years, I had never listened to the words of the Orwellian speaker-on-the-telescreen:
If you wanted to distill Google's badthink-banning policy down to one line, there you have it. "A garden of pure ideology—where each worker may bloom, secure from the pests purveying contradictory truths." (Here's a link to a Youtube video of the ad.)
P.S. As if on cue, I find these stories about Google getting bad-thinkers fired from a center-left think tank (hat tip to Instapundit for all but the first link):
The Federalist: Bullying A Leftist Think Tank Pierces Google’s Carefully Cultivated ‘Don’t Be Evil’ Image
New York Times: Google Critic Ousted From Think Tank Funded by the Tech Giant (long)
Washington Post: Google is coming after critics in academia and journalism. It’s time to stop them. (Possibly the best short summary of the flap.)
Gizmodo: Yes, Google Uses Its Power to Quash Ideas It Doesn’t Like—I Know Because It Happened to Me
Ars Technica: Google is losing allies across the political spectrum
Just to be clear, I am not calling for antitrust enforcement against Google. But it sounds like others, on the left and the right, are. (I think we should act against Google as individuals -- by denying them our business.)
I realized that, in all these years, I had never listened to the words of the Orwellian speaker-on-the-telescreen:
Today, we celebrate the first glorious anniversary of the Information Purification Directives. We have created, for the first time in all history, a garden of pure ideology—where each worker may bloom, secure from the pests purveying contradictory truths. Our Unification of Thoughts is more powerful a weapon than any fleet or army on earth. We are one people, with one will, one resolve, one cause. Our enemies shall talk themselves to death, and we will bury them with their own confusion. We shall prevail!
If you wanted to distill Google's badthink-banning policy down to one line, there you have it. "A garden of pure ideology—where each worker may bloom, secure from the pests purveying contradictory truths." (Here's a link to a Youtube video of the ad.)
P.S. As if on cue, I find these stories about Google getting bad-thinkers fired from a center-left think tank (hat tip to Instapundit for all but the first link):
The Federalist: Bullying A Leftist Think Tank Pierces Google’s Carefully Cultivated ‘Don’t Be Evil’ Image
New York Times: Google Critic Ousted From Think Tank Funded by the Tech Giant (long)
Washington Post: Google is coming after critics in academia and journalism. It’s time to stop them. (Possibly the best short summary of the flap.)
Gizmodo: Yes, Google Uses Its Power to Quash Ideas It Doesn’t Like—I Know Because It Happened to Me
Ars Technica: Google is losing allies across the political spectrum
Just to be clear, I am not calling for antitrust enforcement against Google. But it sounds like others, on the left and the right, are. (I think we should act against Google as individuals -- by denying them our business.)
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