Random (but not really)

Friday, May 28, 2004

Googled

I don’t get it.

US politicians have taken the first steps towards imposing restrictions on Google’s Gmail service.

Citing privacy worries, Californian senators have approved a bill that limits Google’s plans to scan messages and include ads based on what it finds.

Now I’m all for restraining corporations to keep them from doing harm, but I fail to see where any harm is done here.

Google is offering GMail–for free–and is being completely forthright and open about what this free e-mail account entails. They are not the only service out there offering free e-mail accounts, so if you don’t like their policy, you can go somewhere else.

And it’s not as if GMail dominated the market, and if you didn’t have GMail, you couldn’t e-mail anyone else.

I don’t get it. It sounds like someone–or several someones–have been standing out in the sun too long.

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