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I am pretty sure my internet service provider is already doing that. I don't see the difference. Did i miss something? They didn't say it's free.
What, your ISP already mines data about you and sells it? If I knew that about mine I would leave it ASAP.
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Funnily enough, Coke are already draining the wells of villages that do have them. http://www.theguardian.com/money/2006/mar/19/business.india1
Yea, let me clear – I'm not saying a huge multi-national corporation is squeaky clean because of one positive thing they've done. The point I was trying to make is that the motivation of said company may not be to "save the world", but the results (and the impressive efficiency of attaining them) may do a lot of good, even if indirectly.
Now if we consider that Coke is a luxury when compared to a necessity like water for drinking and irrigation, we should conclude that a luxury that precludes a necessity is superfluous and should be prohibited. That includes prohibiting "efficient businesses" when their actions to earn profits negatively impact the basic level of life.
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What, your ISP already mines data about you and sells it? If I knew that about mine I would leave it ASAP.
Good luck if it's a state monopoly (mine is). Between bad internet and no internet, I chose bad internet.
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I'm sure it's possible. I don't think NSA-style tracking of all requests would be in Google's best interest, as it wouldn't do wonders for their image.
They don't care about their image. They care if they get locked up if they don't comply.
Life is not zero-sum. Just because big corporations gain, doesn't mean you have to lose. And please, stop with the slavery metaphor. It's offensive. There are actual slaves in Africa that would love the serfdom of targeted ads.
> What Facebook and Google have done is discovered a village with no water and they plan to bring them cheap Coke to buy when—if their motives were truly honorable—there is another glaringly obvious option: you could teach them to build a well. Funny you should mention Coke. It turns out that these businesses desiring profits can pretty efficiently solve or make improvement to problems, like distribution, in places l…
Providing internet access is not the same as locking somebody into their cloud services. There is such a thing as win win in business. Yes, Google benefits if more people are on the internet, because of the network effect - more people searching, more stuff to be found, and, yes, more potential advertising space. It's useful even without lock in.
We shouldn't be relying on for-profit companies to provide a service as basic (in today's modern world) and powerful (education, health, etc) as internet access... because they have nefarious motives in mind. Instead we should be relying on our governments, who have our interests in mind and whose primary job is to protect our rights. ... .. um... oops never mind
When you elect anarchists, it's hardly surprising that the government stops functioning.
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What, your ISP already mines data about you and sells it? If I knew that about mine I would leave it ASAP.
They sell statistic data and have a "DNS failed" page with there "search engine". They also sell my phonenumber if i don't opt-out.