who watches the watchers?

"Think of how ubiquitous google.com has become and the interesting data mining possibilities of the search engine gathered information itself (e.g., stream of thought). Couple that with the information that we pump into orkut.com, such as links to friends, location, likes/dislikes, habits, content of posts, etc., and you have expanded that profiling system quite nicely. Correlating google.com behavior with orkut.com behavior probably provides interesting tidbits. (And, if you have been using google.com for quite some years and google.com has effective profiling, then it might finally be able to map that activity back to you personally through the orkut.com provided information.) This is, of course, valuable information." -Andrew, member of "Orkut Paranoia" community

Orkut dynamo Huy Zing was terminated, because the Big Brother watching Orkut didn't like something about him. Communities were created in his memory, but these were deleted too.
Google offshores jobs.
Google has contract labor slaves. They get no benefits. They are treated as serfs. They are dropped like flies when they don't pump out just the right amount of labor and undignified silence.
Absolute power corrupts absolutely. Larry and Sergey's mantra of "Don't be evil" has already been compromised, now that it's more about money than about a great idea from two Stanford CS dorks.
Read orkut.com's terms of service. "By submitting, posting or displaying any Materials on or through the orkut.com service, you automatically grant to us a worldwide, non-exclusive, sublicenseable, transferable, royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable right to copy, distribute, create derivative works of, publicly perform and display such Materials."

There is no rational basis to support this monopoly. Drive competition.


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