At the same time Google and Microsoft seem to want to own every aspect of the internet. I was sort of creeped out recently because Google has added realtor search to its map product, and so now not only do they know the outside of your house, if you ever put your house or room up for rent, they also know the inside of your house as well. Google’s CEO has said that if you don’t want people to know it, perhaps you shouldn’t be doing it on the net, but there is a difference between putting it on the internet and every aspect of your life being stripped searched by Google at every corner. Anyone who uses jquery or any of the javascript libraries cached at Google is further exposing their visitors to the all seeing eyes of Google. Google goggles is even more creepy because I can only imagine people taking millions of pictures of everything which are geocoded in Google’s cloud. Let’s just say the implications are easy to get paranoid about.

It seems to me that the very nature of the net is under threat from both corporations and governments as they attempt to exert the same sort of control over it as they did television and radio back in the day. The whole net neutrality thing I thing was only the opening salvo. Under the surface the war is brewing that will fundamentally alter things in such a way that I don’t think things will go back.

These tubes will never be the same. Good thing or no?