Comments on: You are losing your privacy on the Internet http://www.kareldonk.com/karel/2006/10/20/you-are-losing-your-privacy-on-the-internet/ The blog of Karel Donk, a Software Engineer, Designer and Photographer in Suriname. Mon, 06 Sep 2010 14:33:41 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Karel Donk » Archive » Be careful with where you get your information from! http://www.kareldonk.com/karel/2006/10/20/you-are-losing-your-privacy-on-the-internet/#comment-1330 Karel Donk » Archive » Be careful with where you get your information from! Sat, 03 Feb 2007 12:21:06 +0000 http://www.miraesoft.com/karel/2006/10/20/you-are-losing-your-privacy-on-the-internet/#comment-1330 [...] I’ve written about this before, and two important documentaries that you should see on this subject are “Orwell Rolls in his Grave” and “Outfoxed.” The traditional media such as TV, radio and print are slowly being taken over by a small number of corporations with just a few people at the top deciding what to report. Rupert Murdoch’s NewsCorp alone reaches 80% of the world population, and he’s now also taking over large websites on the Internet. Other corporations such as General Electric Capital and organizations such as the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation are also busy buying what remains of independent media. And then you also have corporations on the Internet such as Google who have been caught censoring information many times already. Even Microsoft and Yahoo are actively and willingly helping the Chinese government with censorship and limiting freedom of speech. And it’s still not enough, because the Chinese president wants even more control of the Internet: CHINESE PRESIDENT Hu Jintao said that his glorious socialist government should be using the Internet to “guide public opinion”. [...] [...] I’ve written about this before, and two important documentaries that you should see on this subject are “Orwell Rolls in his Grave” and “Outfoxed.” The traditional media such as TV, radio and print are slowly being taken over by a small number of corporations with just a few people at the top deciding what to report. Rupert Murdoch’s NewsCorp alone reaches 80% of the world population, and he’s now also taking over large websites on the Internet. Other corporations such as General Electric Capital and organizations such as the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation are also busy buying what remains of independent media. And then you also have corporations on the Internet such as Google who have been caught censoring information many times already. Even Microsoft and Yahoo are actively and willingly helping the Chinese government with censorship and limiting freedom of speech. And it’s still not enough, because the Chinese president wants even more control of the Internet: CHINESE PRESIDENT Hu Jintao said that his glorious socialist government should be using the Internet to “guide public opinion”. [...]

]]> By: Karel Donk » Archive » Google ‘in bed’ with CIA http://www.kareldonk.com/karel/2006/10/20/you-are-losing-your-privacy-on-the-internet/#comment-1129 Karel Donk » Archive » Google ‘in bed’ with CIA Wed, 01 Nov 2006 15:00:46 +0000 http://www.miraesoft.com/karel/2006/10/20/you-are-losing-your-privacy-on-the-internet/#comment-1129 [...] You are losing your privacy on the Internet [...] [...] You are losing your privacy on the Internet [...]

]]> By: Karel Donk http://www.kareldonk.com/karel/2006/10/20/you-are-losing-your-privacy-on-the-internet/#comment-1124 Karel Donk Sat, 21 Oct 2006 17:03:03 +0000 http://www.miraesoft.com/karel/2006/10/20/you-are-losing-your-privacy-on-the-internet/#comment-1124 Hey Maarten, good to see you're still checking what I'm up to. Nobody can deny that there are a lot of good things both Google and Microsoft are also doing. I'm still waiting to see what overall direction they are going to take before I delist them from the "companies I like" section of my site. There is also still a lot of information I need to process and decide on before I can make a decision. All of that will appear here in the future. But in the mean time, you might also want to check this: http://www.miraesoft.com/karel/2006/01/28/the-painful-truth-im-a-hypocrite/ I could list Elmer Productions, are you going to be releasing an OS and/or search engine in the future? :smile: Hey Maarten, good to see you’re still checking what I’m up to.

Nobody can deny that there are a lot of good things both Google and Microsoft are also doing. I’m still waiting to see what overall direction they are going to take before I delist them from the “companies I like” section of my site. There is also still a lot of information I need to process and decide on before I can make a decision. All of that will appear here in the future.
But in the mean time, you might also want to check this: http://www.miraesoft.com/karel/2006/01/28/the-painful-truth-im-a-hypocrite/

I could list Elmer Productions, are you going to be releasing an OS and/or search engine in the future? :smile:

]]> By: Maarten http://www.kareldonk.com/karel/2006/10/20/you-are-losing-your-privacy-on-the-internet/#comment-1123 Maarten Sat, 21 Oct 2006 16:36:35 +0000 http://www.miraesoft.com/karel/2006/10/20/you-are-losing-your-privacy-on-the-internet/#comment-1123 Isn't it ironic that you complain (for good reason, I agree) against big companies like Google and Microsoft, and yet they are listed as two of the three 'companies i like' on each page? :oops: Perhaps it's a good time to seek out some smaller companies you can really like. :wink: Isn’t it ironic that you complain (for good reason, I agree) against big companies like Google and Microsoft, and yet they are listed as two of the three ‘companies i like’ on each page? :oops:

Perhaps it’s a good time to seek out some smaller companies you can really like. :wink:

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