“Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men.” – Baron Acton 1887
This quote has been proofed by countless megalomaniacs in the years after its inception. Richard Nixon, Mao Tse-Tung, and the Vatican. Their ranks of their legion are limitless and this week Google CEO Eric Schmidt who has said of his company, “We know where you are. We know where you’ve been. We can more or less know what you’re thinking about.”
Google Street View is an all-seeing god manned by the thousands of viewers living lives so meaningless that they spend theirs days and nights as snitches for Google Street View.
Squealers of bad behavior and the Google CEO responded to accusations of Big Brotherism by advising people upset by 24/7 all-seeing eyes to move away from the cameras.
Oh, super-powerful CEO there is another option.
Good people shoot out those cameras.
Only then will the gods be blind.
Rat-fink google.