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and such sentiments:
Fine. Agree with you 100%. But that's not the issue. You're not changing what's on your screen, a 3rd party is doing the changing, and that makes all the difference.
Analogy:
Scenario #1:
You go down to your local mega-bookstore to pick up the latest Von Daniken, because you need a good laugh. As you read through the book, you scribble in the margins, take out a hilighter and highlight various obvious falsehoods, and circle a few placenames and draw a line to the margin where you note page numbers to The Encylopedia Brittanica you have on your shelf, for a quick reference to basic facts that make Von Daniken look like the un-informed boob/crazy hotel manager he really is.
Result:
Fine and dandy. You get a chuckle out of it, and even put some masking tape on the spine so when you shelve it you'll be able to write your own new title on it, something like "Chariots of the Cuckoos."
Scneario #2
You go to your local mega-bookstore to pick up the latest Stephen King. You discover that the bookstore now sells two versions of every book. The regular print edition, and the "Mega-Bookstore Enhanced" version. They both cost the same price, but in the Mega-Bookstore Enhance version, they've had an automated reader/printer go through and hilight every place name and address, and in the margin beside these hilights, they've taped little fold-out maps of that area, and include the adrresses of the nearesT MacRonald's, Burger Kang, and Kentucky Fried Halibut restaurant in the area.
You buy the regular edition, but you notice that a certain % of people in the lineup are getting the "Enhanced" version, because hey, some people like their fast food as much as they like a good read.
Result:
Two weeks later, you have to find a new favorite Mega Bookstore, because a bunch of publishers got together and sued your previous favorite out of existence.
Think about it.
In a post at
[webmasterworld.com...]
there was a link to an article in TIME magazine about the G$ TB scam.
Google Tricks
[time.com...]
Monday, Mar. 07, 2005
In that article, G$ tried to put forth that same kind of propaganda lie that AutoLink is somehow about helping users on their own desktops.
"it is a user-elected feature," says Marissa Mayer, Google's director of consumer Web products. Mayer says the company plans to give users more say.
And "freedom is slavery."
As some like to say, "NOT!"
AutoLink is not "about users" at all.
Indeed, that G$ statement is the boldest lie of orwellian cult-mind control doublethink yet to be put forth by G$. AutoLink is absolutely not about giving "users more say." AutoLink is only about giving G$ more say, more control over all information. Users have no say over anything with AutoLink. Only G$ does, while openly theiving copyrighted content and bandwidth from websites. It's not about the user control, it's about G$ controlling all information.
And just like in Orwell's 1984...
He who controls the information, controls the past. And he who controls the past, controls the future.
As TRUE FREEDOM requires, users do not have a "right" to re-write any content writer's material and information on the content writer's own (content) web-sites. And more importantly, they do not have that "right" to have G choose what or how to re-write that content for the user either.
For freedom of thought into the future, AutoLink absolutely must be abolished.
