Google as provider of a search engine, gmail, and youtube among other services is key player of the internet. How they play their own terms and regulations, with the rules of governments, commercial corporations including their own is significant. Google has a power to steer the direction of the internet. But this power is build on trust. Google is good, what if it turns bad? What if it betrays the trust?
Then we'll know once again that true powers reside in the people and internet is for them and by them. No one corporation can dictate the fate of cyberspace.
At least, it is recognizable now that Google has a vision that reaches to the whole globe for data and information which is made availabe for all (within it's terms) and the same time sitting on the 'search engine' and 'gmail' and 'youtube', all for free and for freedom of speech, who could beat it?
“The idea that the user is sovereign has transformed the meaning of free speech,” Wu said enthusiastically about the Internet age. But Google is not just a neutral platform for sovereign users; it is also a company in the advertising and media business.
May be, greed will blind it's vision.
What could Google do to improve? It has now contributed Chrome to the the world of browsers? Would it contribute an Operating Sytem? Or provide services as a Domain Name Server? Or host websites? Would Google still be a player in the next generation of world wide web?
"She stressed the importance for Google of bringing its own open culture to foreign countries while still taking into account local laws, customs and attitudes. “What is the mandate? It’s ‘Be everywhere, get arrested nowhere and thrive in as many places as possible.’ ”
In this cocktail created by Google, what could make it sour?
Would it play a role in preserving and saving endangered languages?
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