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Think to have a car, that Google is tracking all time (just for your own security) haha

- What a "Orwellian" dream life we gonna have. Cannot wait google to go on medicine also. Then we all can use pills from google. But what will happend to your car, your medicine and your home, if you dare to be opinionated away from mainstream ? - what a nightmare!


This is written very confrontational, but worth a discussion, so I vouched for it:

Google has been known to lock users out of all their services if they are believed to have violated the ToS of even one service.

Having self-driving cars from Google integrated into the same ecosystem could have serious repercussions for users, so is this wise? Do we need legal changes, or should Google just change their model for locking out users?

Forcing companies to serve users isn't really an option either, but Taxis have to do that — how can we solve these issues in a realistic way?


>Having self-driving cars from Google integrated into the same ecosystem could have serious repercussions for users, so is this wise? Do we need legal changes, or should Google just change their model for locking out users?

Break them up, and force the patents to be openly available for a nominal fee (like the patent on the transistor once was). Refuse to license a self-driving car for street use if a centralized firm, rather than the car's owner, can decide how it's used.


don't leave all the research to private companies. fund public research, make results free, increase competition.


We do fund public research.

It is then considered the "property" of the university, which is sold as IPR to the highest bidder to make money for the university. It is also summarily locked behind academic paywalls but there are some solutions to that (icanhazpdf , scihub).

We just fail on everything else in that sentence: make results free, and increase competition.

Things might change if those laws were revoked, turning public universities back to the public, and then funding them appropriately. 30% tax funding is not "funding"... Let the privates do what they want.


Is there a truly private quality university? When I say private, I mean one that is not considered a non-profit and thus pays no taxes on the piles of money it rakes in.


Why all this sudden google news outburst? Why?


My best guess is to drown out the story of them them nuking the Pixel sellers account (which was just reinstated because of the bad press).

It was a big reminder to people how much trust they put in Google with their data and how little recourse they really have against a faceless algorithm.


Yes, we need to backup our emails before google delete our accounts. Googles operations start to remains me of obamas administration, where nobody can actually say anything out of template..


Twitter, Facebook and Google. All push this same agenda. They are the most corrupted organizations. They feel they can suppress, hide and delete your online profiles when they feel that you or your organization is not following they nwo agenda. Latest twitter censorship quiter is James Woods.


Why is google and facebook trying to ensuring people, that they are not evil ? Why do people trust these companies ? Why people are so easy to be lied?


I really hope people would stop using google. It's quite scary how people trust these liar companies, that definitely are not your friend. Alternatives needed from nicer companies..


In new world order you have one bank and one news source. If you dare think otherwise about they agenda, you do not exist anymore long. These corporations will try to destroy anybody who think otherwise. Please dont let Google or Facebook choose wich news are fake or real.


Google and/or Facebook aren't setting the agenda, they're just in a position to sell that power to the highest bidder - and profit handsomely in the process.


Facebook, Twitter and Google all pushing same agenda. Alternatives needed, services that are truly unopionated as they should be. Otherwise we all can watch CNN and believe all what they say.


Every corporation try to hide now they hate against Trump. Sad that there is so many liars in corporate world. I Don't trust anything that Google, Facebook & Twitter is pushing. Trust issue is really understatement.


It's sad that Obama have one for peace also. Wrong man & wrong agenda from day one.


Yes, that really tarnished the entire thing for a lot of people.


It's a minor blemish compared to Henry Kissinger winning one.


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