I'd like to complain about Google for Orwellianizing the m***** (entire
world) with its Groups Beta product. DejaNews began
archiving usenet in 1995 and a lot of people raised their voices at the
time for privacy. Google purchased DejaNews in 2001 and
remained the primary cor****ate archiver of usenet. Until 1995 usenet was
archived by Universities and moderate access was given to
the public at large. A usenet forum is like a 'net hangout' on a specific
topic of interest, in a way like a 'net street' where
people can subscribe and hang out. By Google archiving usenet as a whole
globally, and providing unprecedented access, it is exactly
like Orwellian cameras applied to the streets of the net, a deep human
rights and humanitarian violation of dignity. Not only full
privacy cannot be solved technologically with the privacy features Google
applies, but a company forces a member****p, a member****p
nobody signed an agreement with. What Google offers to the public is a
unilateral emposed uncompetitive environment, creating a
reliance to all who turn to usenet with a personal, private interest
questions to have their privacy ignored molested, and if a
privacy problem develops, having to turn to customer services of a company
they never signed an agreement with, humiliated, cheated,
offended. The Groups Beta product is absolutely illegal in a consumer
sense. Google not only acts as a pirate with usenet, but
recently they scanned millions of books from public libraries without
checking for copyrights. They expect to build a similar piracy
on the net with millions of books expecting writers to turn to a company
to resolve copyright, a company they never signed an
agreement with. Google goes to the limits and criminally violates human
rights.
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