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		By: Russell		</title>
		<link>https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/07/31/google-inc-is-a-different-kind/#comment-506640</link>

		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Russell]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Jul 2011 21:04:59 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Public monopolies work in areas where technology change is incremental and predictable. Where the good provided really has become a utility. ]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Public monopolies work in areas where technology change is incremental and predictable. Where the good provided really has become a utility. </p>
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		By: Greg Laden		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Greg Laden]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Jul 2011 20:24:06 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Maneno means trouble, problem, or argument.  It&#039;s KiSwahili. ]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Maneno means trouble, problem, or argument.  It&#8217;s KiSwahili. </p>
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		By: Jack Sprocket		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jack Sprocket]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Jul 2011 20:21:58 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Public monopolies have traditionally been controlled by taking them into communal- local or national- ownership. Which worked when the scope of a monopoly was no bigger than the state. Now the monopoly is global; there is no global organisation capable of administering Google, because there is no agreed way of running supranational bodies in a way agreeable to all the local interests. Maybe it has taken Google to show us that our nation- states are conceptually similar to the English County Councils, the French Departements, and the American States of the recent age.

Google has immense power, and zero responsibility. At the moment it is mostly a liberating movement, freeing information and making it widely available. There is no obvious reason why it should continue to be like this, as its only reason for existence is to make a profit for its proprietors. 

Money dictates that Google will develop over time to favour the controllers of wealth. The only way those of us without globally significant wealth can counter this is to develop means of communication which bypass the monopoly, which Google will eventually naturally oppose. But we don&#039;t need streamed gigabits- the future underground will operate through silent, ungreedy, undetected bot- networks that are too expensive to avoid.

The class war will go on- despite most of the underlings believing they are part of the elite.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Public monopolies have traditionally been controlled by taking them into communal- local or national- ownership. Which worked when the scope of a monopoly was no bigger than the state. Now the monopoly is global; there is no global organisation capable of administering Google, because there is no agreed way of running supranational bodies in a way agreeable to all the local interests. Maybe it has taken Google to show us that our nation- states are conceptually similar to the English County Councils, the French Departements, and the American States of the recent age.</p>
<p>Google has immense power, and zero responsibility. At the moment it is mostly a liberating movement, freeing information and making it widely available. There is no obvious reason why it should continue to be like this, as its only reason for existence is to make a profit for its proprietors. </p>
<p>Money dictates that Google will develop over time to favour the controllers of wealth. The only way those of us without globally significant wealth can counter this is to develop means of communication which bypass the monopoly, which Google will eventually naturally oppose. But we don&#8217;t need streamed gigabits- the future underground will operate through silent, ungreedy, undetected bot- networks that are too expensive to avoid.</p>
<p>The class war will go on- despite most of the underlings believing they are part of the elite.</p>
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		By: Azkyroth		</title>
		<link>https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/07/31/google-inc-is-a-different-kind/#comment-506637</link>

		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Azkyroth]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Jul 2011 20:04:27 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Any thoughts on what it&#039;ll take to get them to pull their heads out of their arrogant asses and restore the broadly-demanded option to turn off auto-complete in their search function?]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Any thoughts on what it&#8217;ll take to get them to pull their heads out of their arrogant asses and restore the broadly-demanded option to turn off auto-complete in their search function?</p>
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		By: Ole Phat Stu		</title>
		<link>https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/07/31/google-inc-is-a-different-kind/#comment-506636</link>

		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ole Phat Stu]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Jul 2011 18:58:23 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[What does &quot;maneneo&quot; mean? It is not in my dictionary.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>What does &#8220;maneneo&#8221; mean? It is not in my dictionary.</p>
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