Google for Government. Any Other Ideas?
June 10, 2012
Fear is weak, but it is a known tactic in times of war. According to the article Governments pose greatest threat to internet, says Google’s Eric Schmidt, Google’s EC had a vision of cyber warfare that should have our screens shaking on the stand.
The prophecy foretold of a conspiracy of secrets that led to the future decline of the internet. Now everyone enjoys a good theory, and this one deems all nations that carry out cybercrimes a threat to honest information everywhere. Individual hackers can be an issue, but its government themselves that has Google’s Executive Chairman hardwired.
Eric Schmidt gives tidings of grave things to come with:
“Governments that censor online material are up from four a decade ago to at least 40 today. Through filtering, governments could build their own “Balkanised web”, where people saw different information online depending on who and where they were, without anyone knowing what had been censored.”
“Make no mistake, this is a fight for the future of the web, and there is no room for complacency. It is very difficult to identify the source of cyber-criminality and stop it.”
Schmidt’s His concern for the future well-being of information rights was ironic given the history. That is not to say his opinion was tainted in any way by recent events, just to be clear. We ignore government, just simply overthrow the government and let Google become the government. Hmmm… any other ideas?
Jennifer Shockley, June 10, 2012
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