Ok so this is just the brain dump of a rant so bear with it.
I’ve just watched more 4 news’ report on the current [ICANN situation] (the entire website is completely funked at the time of writing probably due to the content of this post).
The news article was generally about the whole internet being controlled by a bunch of american toss-pieces rather than a non-profit organisation. That bit was great, but then they moved on to the subject of what will happen in the future, which involved the internet being used for everything. This then brought up the moral dilemma of privacy, and who do they see as the main culprit of this? Google.
Yup, each time you use Google they store your search to improve the page ranking system, though in the article they said it could be used for anything. So clearly the ‘expert’ isn’t quite as unbiased as you’d like. When you see companies like Microsoft that won’t let you use your operating system if you change a piece of hardware, companies like Google (who don’t seem to charge for anything) can only be good, and with a mission statement that says ‘Do no evil’ I’m not sure how they anyone could accuse them of being even remotely questionable.
Really shitty journalism like this is so bad for people that don’t know enough about the things in question to understand how biased the reporting is. And there I was thinking More4 was a ‘Adult’ information channel, when all it’s giving us is the kiddie version of the truth.
/rant end