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Comparing Google to 9/11?

By lizzief 592 days ago from http://www.simplystating.com

Today I read someone compare Google to the terrorists that attacked the United States on Sept. 11, 2001. This person blogged that when Google reduced pagerank for paid bloggers that they effectively acted like al Qaeda did when they sent their minions to blow up the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and force the downing of Flight 93. This is my response to that idiocy. It's true that some people won't be making the kind of money they were because pagerank was reduced but comparing that to the murder of thousands of people is reprehensible.

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written by Snoskred 592 days ago

You got it wrong.

I was actually trying to illustrate the point that fear changes how people look at things. There's no going back now.

Me, I'll never look at a plane in the same way again. Nor will I ever look at Google in the same way again. When people use fear to try and control others, it can truly have effects that were not foreseen at all.

I wasn't comparing what they are *doing* to 9/11. Do not get me wrong, I never intended to claim that 9/11 is as bad as what Google are doing. 9/11 was a horrible thing.

I thought the article made that fairly clear.

This is purely misinterpretation. And it isn't the first time you have misinterpreted something I have written.

Snoskred

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written by lizzief 592 days ago

I didn't get it wrong. I'm not going to get into an argument here, but I clearly read how you correlated the Google Smackdown and 9/11. That was very, very poor taste, I'm sorry.

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written by Sutocu 592 days ago

Talk about hyperbole... Another post to remind us that you should have a sense of what's politically correct, before you publish your post.

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written by harishankar 592 days ago

It's way over the top to equate unethical business practices (which is bad, no doubt) with global terrorism. Ridiculous...

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written by motivated 591 days ago

I believe that each of use should be allowed to voice our opinions on issues and not be called names. If we all saw things the same, where would the interest be. Everything would be boring.

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written by lizzief 591 days ago

You're absolutely right. Everyone is entitled to voice their opinion on whatever. That opinion though, when voiced publicly, is subject to a certain amount of criticism. I don't see anyone calling anyone else names, however. Forgive me if it seems that way.

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