Nov 13 2011: Ah, at least *I* live in a country with proper cellular network legislation. And none of the carriers here are that biased either. They also let you get to some websites free, but you at least get to choose which ones.
Well... That is the price for a world controlled by large corporations...
Nov 13 2011: Now, get your facts straight. Are you saying that Google is biasing it's results based on bribes from companies, or alters its results to fit its needs??! God, don't believe everything what you hear from that guy in the video. One of the main things that made Google such a big hit is that their search went through a clean and good algorithm that was completely unbiased and untampered with.
Oh, and please, never bring Google and Facebook into the same sentence again. They are both companies with a completely different aim, method, and policy.
Another thing about the Democracy part: The internet *never was* democratic. Yes, as you pointed out somewhere, there have been democratic elections and things like that, but what you have to realize is that that is a very different topic. In this case it is that the internet is being used as a medium to create democracy in the world. But the rest of the internet here was mostly just free reign, with a few international laws and everything.
Nov 13 2011: Honestly, I have to say that this is one of the most generalized, naive, and very... well.. fanboyish presentations. I mean, you can see "Apple fanboy" written all across his face. Seriously. He talks about the iPad as if there is no competition on the market with similar ideas. He talks of google (apple's main competitor) as if it is some kind of wretched oppressive control over the internet, when that is obviously not true. I also still don't get many of the logic behind his thinking. Why the hell is he comparing mobile and desktop OS statistics in the same graph? I mean, how hard is it to notice that a 12'' laptop and a barely 4'' smartphone is not exactly the same thing? What the hell does he mean by HTML5 bringing down google?! Honestly, this is either a crazy man, or my ears have failed me.
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Oh, and please, never bring Google and Facebook into the same sentence again. They are both companies with a completely different aim, method, and policy.
Another thing about the Democracy part: The internet *never was* democratic. Yes, as you pointed out somewhere, there have been democratic elections and things like that, but what you have to realize is that that is a very different topic. In this case it is that the internet is being used as a medium to create democracy in the world. But the rest of the internet here was mostly just free reign, with a few international laws and everything.
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