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Wired Writer Imagines Google Island
theodp writes "The last thing Wired's Mat Honan remembered before awaking on the self-driving boat that dropped him on the island was sitting through a four-hour Google I/O keynote in Moscone Center and hearing Google CEO Larry Page promote a vision of a utopia where society could be free to innovate and experiment, unencumbered by government regulations or social norms. 'Welcome to Google Island,' a naked-save-for-a-pair-of-eyeglasses Larry Page tells Honan. 'As soon as you hit Google's territorial waters, you came under our jurisdiction, our terms of service. Our laws — or lack thereof — apply here. By boarding our self-driving boat you granted us the right to all feedback you provide during your journey. This includes the chemical composition of your sweat. Remember when I said at I/O that maybe we should set aside some small part of the world where people could experiment freely and examine the effects? I wasn't speaking theoretically. This place exists. We built it.'"
Hervé Villechaize used to say ze Plane ze Plane. Maybe its ze Pain ze Pain of losing any rights to privacy. So is this Fantasy Island or not?
My, my, my! Your asshole is rancid, and it's also filled with feces! This is the greatest day of my entire life! I can scarcely believe that such a foul asshole presented itself to my fetid cock. What say my putrid cock and your rotting bowels get acquainted with one another? Afterwards, I can fill your disgusting rectum with my little white tadpole friends! Finally, after the two are married, I can whisper sweet nothings into your bare Bayer aspirin hole. We will make this a yoctosecond to remember! What say you?
When compared to most of the other vendors, Google is easily the most open and easy to use no matter what your platform of choice is. So I really wouldn't call it an island, Apple is more of an island, if you use iCloud you can't use it on an Android phone, on the other hand, you can access Google Drive on nearly any platform imaginable.
Taxation is legalized theft, no more, no less.