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Re:What I use instead of Google services by brave-new on Tuesday September 02, 2014 @07:59PM (#8260840)
We live in the information age and information now is the ultimate power. Many people don't believe it, the same way that before the Civil and Crimean Wars not everybody believed that industry is the ultimate power of the industrial age.

By letting Google collect enormous amounts of data about you, you are letting them have power over you. It can be used for pushing you to buy stuff against your rational will or for killing you, if say at any point you decide to not fully cooperate with a future totalitarian government.

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Re:What I use instead of Google services by jusben1369 on Tuesday September 02, 2014 @08:18PM (#8260904)
One can't live ones live today driven by an assumption that they'll be ruled by a totalitarian government in the future. Your mind is already trapped; you're effectively living in fear today that one day in the future you'll be living in fear.
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Re:What I use instead of Google services by throwaway7808 on Tuesday September 02, 2014 @08:35PM (#8260954)
Most likely you and your kids are gonna be wiped out by intellegent machines just in a few decades.
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Re:What I use instead of Google services by jusben1369 on Wednesday September 03, 2014 @08:41AM (#8262663)
Better have fun now then!
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Re:What I use instead of Google services by twobits on Wednesday September 03, 2014 @03:34PM (#8264849)
"One can't live ones live today driven by an assumption that they'll be ruled by a totalitarian government in the future."

You may have heard it, but humans have this shit called "intelligence". It's some times used to predict future outcomes. (Yeah, I didn't believe this shit neither, the first time I heard about it. But please, do look it up online.)

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