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Re:Google will pay for free wireless in S.F. parks by jes5199 on Thursday July 25, 2013 @11:53PM (#6106478)
I sort of wish that google wasn't a private company anymore. Their service is so pervasive and so fundamental to society that I think it should really be nationalized. Or, since it's international, taken over by the U.N.

Or: to attack the same problem from another angle: I'd be happier if we had either decentralized replacements for Google and Amazon and Ebay.

I'd prefer these platforms - and the vast wealth and power they create - to be either in the hands of the general public, or in the hands of democracy, than to be controlled by the whims of the nouveau riche.

Re:Google will pay for free wireless in S.F. parks by peferron on Friday July 26, 2013 @12:53AM (#6106683)
The NSA would love it too.