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Re:Dear Googles: G+/YouTube Anschluss – you've done outed me by rdl on Sunday November 17, 2013 @08:24AM (#6748786)
I think it's kind of offensive to refer to a product decision by a website as Anschluss; both because it implies Google's leadership are the Nazis, and because it trivializes the actual German/Austrian union (and thus beginning of WW2).

Marginally more offensive than the "co-prosperity sphere" thing pinboardguy did.

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Re:Dear Googles: G+/YouTube Anschluss – you've done outed me by AndiS on Monday November 18, 2013 @12:53PM (#6755671)
To be clear, that wasn't my term (it was the title of a link that I reposted), but I agree with you -- I'd have personally chosen something with less of the weight of history and atrocity behind it.
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Re:Dear Googles: G+/YouTube Anschluss – you've done outed me by davidgerard on Sunday November 17, 2013 @09:42AM (#6749112)
Yeah, Godwination isn't stylish. The analogy is inaccurate too. But that's what the pissed-off people are calling it, and that was the title of the post.
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Re:Dear Googles: G+/YouTube Anschluss – you've done outed me by ExpiredLink on Sunday November 17, 2013 @10:23AM (#6749257)
BTW, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anschluss
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