On 05/11/2014 03:57 PM, Geert Lovink wrote:
> To me, it is somehow super clear that Facebook is evil. Not hard to > understand. But Google? Why are tensions rising so high lately around them? > Look at the tone of the Cory Doctorow blog post to Boing Boing… Don't get me > wrong. But have they really gone down lately? In my humble view they are as > evil as were a decade ago... What happened? Have we changed? > I think many people have been switching back and forth between being suspicious, apprehensive and hopeful regarding Google - suspicious because of their centralization and monitoring, hopeful because of their technical cluefulness and huge contributions to free software, and apprehensive because of some of their inclinations towards right-wing politics - as in Schmidt's case. On the other hand, I don't see how Doctorow became part of the "bay area elites". He's a notoriously leftist British-Canadian science fiction writer living in London. He did live in SF once, but it might take more than that to become part of the local elite? # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nett...@kein.org
