Re:As Google Maps Renames Neighborhoods, Residents Fume
by extralego on Thursday August 02, 2018 @12:07PM
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No. It defines advertising.
Neighborhoods imply far more than geography; things like culture, traditions, cooperation, people define a neighborhood. This is, among other things, the contents of trust. The idea of a foundation on which to make a happy life amongst they neighbors can involve many different things, so it’s vague, but the most important part is that the participants themselves are who develops the neighborhood; not capitalists trying to profit from it.
Gentrification is a prime example of where this becomes a cruel and unusual form of manipulation, but it’s not the only one.
What Google is doing should absolutely be considered a crime.
Neighborhoods imply far more than geography; things like culture, traditions, cooperation, people define a neighborhood. This is, among other things, the contents of trust. The idea of a foundation on which to make a happy life amongst they neighbors can involve many different things, so it’s vague, but the most important part is that the participants themselves are who develops the neighborhood; not capitalists trying to profit from it.
Gentrification is a prime example of where this becomes a cruel and unusual form of manipulation, but it’s not the only one.
What Google is doing should absolutely be considered a crime.