Re: <nettime> tensions within the bay area elites

[Geert Lovink <geert@xs4all.nl>]

He Art, slow down. You seem to have a short memory. The label 'evil' was introduced by Google itself, not by some weirdo European media theorist: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don%27t_be_evil.

And if a corporation becomes directly involved in the destruction of a beloved city such as SF then it is the right of its citizens to fight back, doing 'exactly what they are supposed to be doing', namely resist, in both direct and symbolic ways.

Geert


On 15 May 2014, at 9:17 AM, Art McGee <amcgee@gmail.com> wrote:

>> And btw, y'all could still dump your overpriced Mac OS for a nice Linux
>> distro anytime!
> 
> 
> Hilarious. You are quite the comedian. Unfortunately, on the desktop, OS X
> is what Linux wants to be when it grows up.
> 
> Now, getting back to the main issue, what is going on here? Facebook is
> evil? Google is evil? Seriously?
 <...>


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