Sunday, June 03, 2007

I agree: if Google Street View were a government project (specifically, a Bush Administration project), it would draw the ire of folks such as Boing Boing. This creates a real conundrum for the Left: do they attack Google for being a large, successful company, which would be their tendency, or do they give Google a pass because it's not a part of the Bushitler Regime?

Ultimately, I predict they'll overlook what they naturally see as an attack on "privacy" (which really means whatever they want it to mean) because it's Google. In their ends-justify-the-means mentality, Google is their champion against the evil Microsoft, and they'll support whatever makes Google more powerful in this context. That will last until Google becomes their evil corporation of the moment, at which point suddenly Street View will be an insidious effort to destroy privacy for the almight dollar.

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