Rob Horning (via rawbbie)
well?! dunno how i feel about this. am i just being a precious narcissist when i decide to stand up for the abstraction of privacy by phasing out my google account and replacing it with a private one, or do i have good reasons for wanting certain informations to be public/accessible/degraded/appropriated, and others not?
my position on Google comes from a place that is wary of apathy, with a future eye imagining a company that has stockpiled decades worth of the personal information of millions of individuals. at present, i don’t see anything worrying in this, but like all businesses, when they get larger and more powerful, they start growing a little seed of corruption that turns into ugliness and domination. you see this happening for example when independent organic farms are bought up by bigger companies and amalgamated - the original ethics and purpose of the company are lost in the need for profit, and regulations are subsequently slackened or loopholed i don’t see any reason why Google should permanently remain immune to this, yaw. particularly if their motto is “don’t be evil”. and if this is bourgeois of me, then FUCK ME I AM SO BOURGEOIS RIGHT NOW
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