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Cory Doctorow's Fiction About An Evil Google

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the government-search-engines dept.

ahem writes "I saw a link on Valleywag to a story written by Cory Doctorow about what would happen if Google got in bed with the Dept. of Homeland Security. Chilling, well written, but the ending was a bit anti-climactic for my tastes."

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  1. Re:There's no fiction by heinousjay · · Score: 0, Troll

    Google was evil from the first penny they took in. If they truly wanted to be good, they would drop all money making schemes and simply provide their services for the good of the public at large.

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  2. Re:The ending by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Who cares how it ended... it's the biggest load of paranoid shit.

    I mean, seriously, cowboyfuckface over here needs to learn what's NEWS and what's FICTIONAL DRIVEL.

    This is neither NEWS nor for NERDS. It's some dicktard doctor wanting to get famous - just becaus you're a doctor, doesn't mean you're right.

  3. Cory Doctorow ... well written? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Oh, come on, did you really think so? The man might have some interesting ideas (but not particularly original to geeks, just unfamiliar to the masses), but as a fiction writer his skills are, well, poor.

    Why, exactly, is this guy a big deal?

  4. Re:Cory Doctorow visits a Radio Shack by foobsr · · Score: 0, Troll

    Too bad we can't lock them all up in Second Life and feed them to the furries.

    Oh yes, and call it 'heaven for plastic people' - "He Doctorow received his high school diploma from a free school in Toronto called SEED School, and dropped out of four universities without attaining a degree." (Wikipedia), but "A senior technical official in the Homeland Security Department has a phony Ph.D. from a diploma mill. I'm thinking that I'd like to get one of these and join my parents (Dr. and Dr. Doctorow) as Dr. Doctorow, Jr." (BoingBoing) and "I may not agree with everything Dr. Cory tells me, but if you're not reading boingboing blog, you ought to. Because Cory Doctorow is the king-hell blogger of the universe." (Sterling)

    CC.

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  5. Is this for real? by iLuddite · · Score: 0, Troll

    Seriously, just how lame and irrelevant DO you have to be to get ignored by Slashdot? Cory Doctorow? I thought Slashdot was my refuge, on the tech blogosphere, away from idiotic, pretentious, know-nothing, wannabe hipsters.