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Schmidt: G+ 'Identity Service,' Not Social Network

Posted by timothy on from the not-my-favorite-of-google-moves dept.

David Gerard writes "Eric Schmidt has revealed that Google+ is an identity service, and the 'social network' bit is just bait. Schmidt says 'G+ is completely optional,' not mentioning that Google has admitted that deleting a G+ account will seriously downgrade your other Google services. As others have noted, Somewhere, there are two kids in a garage building a company whose motto will be 'Don't be Google.'"

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  1. Re:Don't Be Evil? That's just a lie by bonch · · Score: 1, Troll

    Do you even know what fascism is? Google isn't a government. "Fascism" is a loaded term thrown around so much that it's becoming meaningless, along with "Nazi" and other cliches.

    In capitalism and fascism, the powerful betrays the consumers/subjects. And exploits them.

    As opposed to communism and socialism, where the powerful government betrays the citizens and exploits them--expect that unlike capitalism, citizens don't have a choice in putting them out of business by not using them anymore?

    George Carlin liked to use a lot of populist, fist-raising monologues later in his career. He was asked once who exactly were the "owners" he was referring to, and he never replied.