Contest! Google Needs a New Corporate Motto

[rolanni]

Google’s corporate motto for many years has been “Don’t Be Evil.”  And for a while, it/they seemed to be trying to live up to that high standard.

They fought for net neutrality, they fought for Access for All, they went head-to-head with the Big Blue Smurf.  Yay, Google.  My hero.

Then, Google decided that they had a Destiny.  And their Destiny included Preserving and Making Available Everything Ever Written that could still be scanned, regardless of who owned it.  Boo, Google.  No biscuit from this author.

Then, Google decided that, yanno?  Net neutrality?  Allowing everyone equal access to the internet?  So Last Century.  The wave of the future was — of course! — a Tier System, where Big Business, which after all is the future — see BP and the Big Hole in the Ocean Floor — would have access to the Very Best Butter Bandwidth, and the rest of us schmucks — who are after all schmucks and only use the internet to post cat pictures and flame each other — can get by with a lower grade of access.

Read all about it:  here, here, here

Working assets is having a conniption over here.  You can sign their petition to the FCC, if you’re so minded.

So — what should Google’s new motto be?

Originally published at Sharon Lee, Writer. You can comment here or there.

Comments

[stormsdotter.livejournal.com]

*signs and posts to Facebook* Thanks for sharing!

[seekergeek.livejournal.com]

F*ck it, We're Evil?

[(Anonymous)]

Why? Because we can.

Tricia

[barsukthom.livejournal.com]

We Know What's Ours.

[intuition-ist.livejournal.com]

icon love!!! :))

[jhetley.livejournal.com]

"Because I'm the Mommy."

[saruby.livejournal.com]

"Power to the powerful"? "Some are more equal than others"?

[cailleuch.livejournal.com]

"We don't care, we don't have to."

[spiritdancer]

"Mine! Mine! Mine! All mine!"

[elgordo303.livejournal.com]

I think you nailed it !

[zola.livejournal.com]

Don't be evil unless you can get a business advantage out of it.

[muehe.livejournal.com]

Just Hype.
Come on, even if I watch video after video on youtube – my speed is still fast enough that I can not complain.
And the last thing google wants to do is make thier customers un-happy. They own youtube. They want you to watch videos.

As far as asking our government to regulate us more – no thank you.
Sad state of affairs when you trust business more than you trust your government. But I do – and not just a little bit more. A lot, so I would encourage you not to sign the petition to the FCC.

[(Anonymous)]

I believe you are putting the cart before the horse here. If we cannot trust the government, it is BECAUSE it has so largely been taken over by those who vote in ways the corporation lobbyists have paid them to (and thank you, Supremes, for saying corporations have the right to contribute as much as they want to -- aarrrrgh). There is some small chance of electing persons who do not vote the corporation line -- see for example Lloyd Doggett, who sadly is NOT my congressman. But there is no way to substantively control what the companies do. While your point about Google not taking away our ability to watch videos assumes some amount of enlightened self-interest on Google's part, more and more in the last few decades corporations appear to be taking the shortest possible view of things, next quarter's bottom line, not the eventual effect long-term of any of their policies. I have signed the petition and encourage others to do so.

[amm-me.livejournal.com]

Sorry, that anonymous was me.

[muehe.livejournal.com]

I probably was not clear. I do not trust companies. You are absolutely right; their primary concern is making money. That said, you can judge their actions and weight their decisions knowing that.
Politicians, who knows what they are selling us out for this week. They can give the appearance of looking out for me/us when they are not. I trust companies more.

Plus I believe it is every American duty to distrust and challenge the government at every opportunity. Unfortunately I do not always do that because it is easier to go with the flow – but the belief still exists.

[micheledear.livejournal.com]

how's about

"screw you! whaddya gonna do about it?"

[intuition-ist.livejournal.com]

Now that we're covered in money, we can do any d*mn thing we please, nyah, nyah?

[hapaxnym.livejournal.com]

"Don't Be Evil ... ish"

Two Internets?

[claire774.livejournal.com]

This is quite a complicated subject. I think that the Huff Post article is the easiest to understand. If these two giant corporations Google and Verizon are allowed to write their own regulations ( a la Wall St. before the financial collapse or BP before the spill, etc.) then who knows what they will get up to next. First they will try and run their own higher priced internet. Then, I fear, they will cancel our free internet and make us all pay through the nose like the cable companies for access. Don't let them get their big fat feet in the door. Sign the petition! And by the way if you trust the giant corporations more than government you are really trusting the nameless and faceless international barons of destruction beholden to no one. At least with the government we have some say who governs us. Maybe not much, but more than with the corporations. In my humble opinion of course.

[kk1raven.livejournal.com]

"All things belong to Google."