Any company with more than fifty employees becomes an asshole

[clevermanka]

WTF, Google?

Want to tell Google you're very disappointed in them? Sign the CREDO petition here.

Update: Does anyone else remember the Wear a blue ribbon for free speech on the internet campaign?

Join the Blue Ribbon Online Free Speech Campaign!

I started wearing one on my backpack in 1990 or 1991. Someone was distributing them at the Computer Center. Mine is long gone, and the whole "wear a ribbon for..." thing is over-used now, so I never replaced it.

BTW, fellow CREDO-users, the EFF dropped off CREDO's list of beneficiaries this year. Have you written CREDO to let them know of your disappointment yet?

Comments

[rougewench.livejournal.com]

I signed the petition.

However, both sides of the equation denied the NY Times report (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/38576914/).

I signed because one cannot necessarily believe such denials.


D.

Not buying it.

[rorschachsix.livejournal.com]

It triggered my bogosity meter as well. Google would be shooting itself in the head if it made pay for play on the Internet viable.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-31021_3-20012703-260.html
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9180192/Google_denies_talks_with_Verizon_to_end_Net_neutrality_?taxonomyId=152

Doesn't mean you can't let your voice be heard through pertitions and whatnot.

[clevermanka.livejournal.com]

I'm happy to hear you're unconvinced. I haven't trusted Google since they pulled that shit with China. And then tried to pretend they were all "we're not gonna put up with your human rights violations you big bullies" and then...*cricket* *cricket*

Google would be shooting itself in the head if it made pay for play on the Internet viable.

It'd also be shooting down any other competitors. After their recent fuck-ups, I don't trust them to think big or long-term anymore.

[redheadfae.livejournal.com]

oh shit.
And here I sit, Droid in hand, but still pissed off at the whole thing. Even if I stand to gain by this, it goes against all my principles, and I'd quit you, Verizon, if I could just use my Droid elsewhere.

Does signing petitions really do much?
Would it be more effective, as with Congress, to write letters?
I've signed, but I'm always leery that I've just wasted my time with an ineffective method of protest.

[clevermanka.livejournal.com]

You know me. I've already written. And called.

[redheadfae.livejournal.com]

I found another option (https://secure.freepress.net/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=356) as well.

I'm in.

[clevermanka.livejournal.com]

Cool, thanks.

[shrijani.livejournal.com]

Any company with more than fifty employees becomes an asshole.

THAT is a FACT.

[mckitterick.livejournal.com]

Added it to my profile - can't believe I hadn't done that yet.

[geekmom.livejournal.com]

I don't believe it, at least not on the extreme end. They've long been supporters of net neutrality, and they even made an open source tool you can use to see if your ISP is throttling your connection.