“Earth” hour, the Google version

By unknownidentifier

 
Google's Earthhour.org, Viewed From IranI find it both funny and sad when things like these happen.

Now we all know Google is a nice and fluffy company that goes out of it’s way to encourage people to battle global warming…well not really.

Well, this stern reminder is part of what reminds you that stuff like this, is less than of a “community service” than a marketing campaign. Needless to say, such programs can increase the traffic to Youtube which Google owns, as well as any other service that Google manages to squeeze in.

The true irony is that friendship and telorance can help Earth in more than one way, either indirectly by making people worry about things that matter more about what is important (but that makes many people unhappy, doesn’t it ;-) ) or avert a war that can directly impact global warming (though there are far more important things involved in a war to worry about)

And this is not my only gripe with Google, consider this example : Google code, well known for hosting many OpenSource projects, is also blocked for Iranians, and such limitations go directly against the spirit of GPL, but again, why should Google host and award free projects anyways ?

And I still meet people that are totally in love with Google, sigh…

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