| free speech,free information
Our view of this world is largely shaped by the media:television,radio,the Internet,newspapers.These media are increasingly in the hand of large corporations.The largest search engine in Holland is Google,with a market share nearing 95 percent.With the advent of things like 'embedded journalism'
we were told that wars would be reported on with more veracity, authenticity and immediacy.The media feel bound by the limits of good taste and good journalism ,but do they feel bound by other things as well?Are the media giving unbiased reports of the state of affairs worldwide?The case of Fox being not impartial is well documented.The case of e.g. the BBC is also well documented.Some might argue that some recent liberation wars were being reported on with less than total truthfulness,indeed were 'sold' to John Q.Public with insidious and ingenious propaganda elements.I have never started a thread like this,so I don't know how it will develop.My research is still ongoing,sites giving information on Internet,Google and privacy have proven to be a little bit hard to find...I will feed you with snippets of information,food for thought
as things develop,and will try to keep hearsay,rumour,gossip and idle speculation in general out of it.
Food for thought:Internet surfing behaviour has been described by search engine executives as "a map of the brain'.The keeping of data have been defended as being essential for SEO(Search Engine Optimization).For Dutch
television a senior executive of Google kept saying,when pressed for answers regarding this:' our legal department will get back to you on that'.To my knowledge,they haven't |