Is Google an Evil Company? Centralized Slavery or Decentralized Freedom
Before the Internet, the most popular form for digital communications were Bulletin Board Services, also know as BBS. Historians as well as technology enthusiasts documented these early developments. I found out a lot just from going through Textfiles.com's archives as these archives document the history of digital commutations. The textfiles date way back into the 1970s. Textfiles.com captures such an important time in internet history and the site works tirelessly to preserve it for future generations to learn from.
Eventually, BBS's evolved into the Internet we know today. Many of the forms of technology you know of today like compression programs, and even explicit content, originally starting their Internet life being shared by decentralized, peer to peer technology.
Thousands of people were involved running these BBS sites, each connecting in a similar way. The process for a user to connect to BBS's involved dialing up a phone, usually by hand. Although P2P technology we have today is highly advanced in comparison. Unlike the BBS's , that operated in the client/server model current technology throughput and easy of use is like comparing a Model T to a Model 3.
The Internet naturally wants to be decentralized. AOL and incorporated tech giants corrupted the evolution of peer-to-peer technology, in trade for centralized databases and websites. With easy money flowing in, there was no need to be competitive on a technological level, as the current tech companies are highly speculative, and are often even unsustainable to the point of buy outs or collapse as shown by Justin.tv, Imeem.com, and Stickam.com.
Vint Cerf, the creator of the TCP/IP protocol touched on the topic of decentralization inside his seminar from 2006. For the past decade, Google ignored Vint Cerf's advice. If they listened to Vint Cerf back in 2006 and invested in p2p then, they could have already had YouTube running free software instead of proprietary controlled versions today.
Google chose the later, going against it's own motto of "Don't Be Evil". The company chose to centralize the power, boiling it into a corporate structure. Some even say Google already went as far as enabling a power control structure over a large part of Earth's population.
It's obvious governments (and corporations like IBM and Apple) want you to be centralized. I'm sure Jobs would agree that being censored doesn't lead to a great user experience nor does it lead us to a free and open society.
Decentralization can give us solutions for the widespread censorship on large tech platforms. Steve Jobs was all about positive user experiences, I suspect he would have been a fan of DTube, Steemit, and Smoke if he were still with us.
I feel really stuck sometimes in this centralised structure. We can't download files from torrents and forced to use proxies. Our data is being shared all over the world. There is censorship on everything in YouTube. Few companies are running their business and killing the time of end users without incentivise them. I am fan of few of the projects which are working for complete decentralisation. We are still in early days of internet and I think within 10-15 years, we will see an entirely different ecosystem.
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while i dont particularly like big companies, i also dont like labelling for the sake of proving a point.
what makes something evil? why cant google just be people doing what their small minds think is right? I'm sure there are parts of google that do good. they simply dont do it in a way we agree with.
I agree that google is walking down the wrong road, and in my opinion they arent acting for the good of the consumer. but ffs, what business is? business is about profit. they give what they do to appear as if they do it for the consumer, because its part of their business.
bottom line the fault is with capitalism. if you put ownership in the hands of a few, greed will out.
but is google evil?? not any more than cookies. we the consumer choose what to eat and who to do business with. dont like google? dont do business with them.
Google takes money from our government, so it's possible not to do business with them. Corporations do not see good or evil. That's what makes them dangerous. As IBM provided all the computing equipment and software to enable the holocaust.
agree with that. but when you get down to it, just business - at any cost. when i tell people capitalism is bad, they tell me how many jobs it makes, how much money it generates for the system. they don't want to look at the companies that makes guns and drugs and chemicals that destroy lives. its called acceptable risk. so really, if business like this is called acceptable, can we blame one company? rather i say the system is whats at fault, because it allows this lack of ethics to permeate the equation. google is merely one of many corporations that are doing what they have been taught is acceptable.
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