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For lack of a better word, geeks.

Edit: People tend to have feelings regarding companies and institutions. People who are interested in tech and computers have stronger feelings about companies like Google, Apple and Microsoft. At least in Google's early years, people had a tendency to see Google as a figurative Mom, more interested in providing the best search engine and some nice free services than making money at any cost.



I'm a geek ... and I think of Google as (my) "big brother".


I'm a geek and a huge google fanboi and I don't see Google any differently than any other company. They just happen to (currently) have things I like a lot.


I'm a geek, and I increasingly think of Google as Big Brother.


In "Nineteen Eighty-Four" they talked about telescreens with cameras and microphones spying on you in your home.

In 2013, we willingly have webcams and mobile phones which can conceivably monitor us the same way, and governments that are willing to do so.

Google ain't the only Big Brother.


See? I rest my case.

I think even people who love Apple to the point of slavishness think of them as a company, not as a Mom.


I have Apple products, but I think of them as "Fahrenheit 451" (Telling me what I can and can't have).


The #1 governmental tool for monitoring everyone right now is Gmail.

We should all be using encrypted mail all the time, but instead we just feed our mail to the FBG (Federal Bureau of Google).




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