[LINK] The Sky is Falling... Google is a monster, a monster!! I tell you.

[Tom Koltai]

More FUD to sell newspapers...

As one of the Dailymail commentators noted:

The usual hysterical drama queen nonsense.
- The Big Bopper, Durham, UK, 09/4/2011 11:16

We really do need to start a Henny Penny category.



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> [mailto:link-bounces at mailman.anu.edu.au] On Behalf Of Kim Holburn
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> Subject: [LINK] Google is a monster, a monster!! I tell you.
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> 
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1375093/Google-threatens-destroy
-pop-sensation-Adele-Britains-film-music-industries.html
> Google threatens to destroy not only pop sensation Adele, but 
> Britain's film and music industries. So why is No.10 in thrall to this

> parasitic monster?



Commentary here:
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110411/02301413844/uk-paper-insists-g
oogle-is-out-to-destroy-british-culture.shtml
> I certainly can't speak for Google, but I've seen no indication 
> whatsoever that it has no respect for private property. But taking  
> photographs from public roads is not a violation of private property. 
> And, I'm sorry, but it's simply impossible to take the Daily  Mail 
> seriously on a claim that taking photos in public is a violation of 
> private property, when it has front page stories that show a woman's 
> see-through top with a headline screaming about how you can see her 
> breasts. Or this article, highlighting some rich young woman with 
> photographs of her in a bikini while vacationing at a private hotel. I

> would suggest that those are a lot more about violating someone's 
> privacy than a photo of a castle.


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