I don’t get it.<\/p>\n
US politicians have taken the first steps<\/a> towards imposing restrictions on Google’s Gmail service.<\/p>\n
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. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Now I’m all for restraining corporations to keep them from doing harm, but I fail to see where any harm is done here.<\/p>\n
Google<\/a> is offering GMail<\/a>–for free–and is being completely forthright<\/a> and open about what this free e-mail account entails<\/a>. They are not the only service out there offering free<\/a> e-mail<\/a> accounts<\/a>, so if you don’t like their policy, you can go somewhere else.<\/p>\n
And it’s not as if GMail dominated the market, and if you didn’t have GMail, you couldn’t e-mail anyone else.<\/p>\n
I don’t get it. It sounds like someone–or several someones–have been standing out in the sun too long.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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