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Google as Big Brother?
email discuss Posted by Patricia Aufderheide on Sep 29, 2007 at 3:47 PM
Longtime public interest advocate Jeffrey Chester, of the Center for Digital Democracy, has written a provocative op-ed in The Nation about Google as the dubious guardian of the public interest in communication. He points to Google’s rapid acquisition of other media and communications companies, and its core strategy of developing data-mining into an art that serves advertisers. He asks, “With the Internet and other online media holding such promise for achieving diversity of expression, do we really want to find ourselves beholden to a global few to underwrite the editorial content essential for democracy? These are among the key concerns that should be on a progressive agenda for this and future digital generations.” Read it here: http://www.thenation.com/doc/20071015/chester .
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