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Originally Posted by Crashdamage View Post
Which is why the cherry bomb is so ugly and has me pissed and posting in this thread in the first place. But to think Google or many other companies are less evil about such things strikes me as cherry-picking naivete.
Such things? What things? Lobbying its host government to change laws to allow better snooping of its employees (Lex Nokia)? Selling wiretapping equipment to Iran, used for monitoring the political opposition? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia#N...bility_to_Iran

Oh! But I bet Nokia is leaving China because of their censorship! Right?

Like others have said, Google at least asks you for your permission. They also don't sell their products or sell out their own principles to "evil" (since that word is so popular here) governments snooping on their citizens, or agree to 15th century demands on censorship. Nokia has taken no stance like this, quite the opposite.

I don't see any reason to think that Nokia is somehow "more good" than any of the other companies mentioned here. Their track record on privacy certainly doesn't prove it. Don't make assumptions on their Dungeons & Dragons alignment just because you happen to like their devices and dislike those of the others.
 

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