Is a Google Boycott in order?
May 30th, 2007 | by admin |I’m always wary of calling for a boycott because I’m not sure how effective they can be. For instance, today on the show we talked about Google and how they’re stirring up some controversy with their political agenda, their information gathering, and their lack of respect for our Veterans…
Do you realize how much I use Google’s products? I use them for e-mail, I use them for their calendar program, heck, I use them for this blog! Should I even try to boycott Google, it would be very difficult to not use their search engine.
Last week the CEO of Google came out and said they want to collect information on people so that they can help make decisions for them in different areas of their life. Does that sound like “Big Brother” Google to you? It kind of does to me. They also have for nine straight years neglected to put a holiday logo up for Memorial Day or Veterans Day, while they change their logo for such holidays as Earth Day, Halloween, the birthday of Ray Charles, and more… Why such disrespect for our country and our military? Frankly, I don’t know, and it is rather bothersome. They also continue to show their political agenda by blocking some types of links and allowing other types of links within their search engine. Did you know they’ve refused to link to sites that criticize extreme Islam, but will link to sites featuring homosexual pornography? There are plenty of other examples, but suffice it to say, Google does seem to have an agenda!
What can we do to make our voices heard when it comes to these issues? Well we could try a boycott, or we could inundate the people at Google with our concerns… I think the latter is in order first, so please feel free to fire away your complaints and concerns toward management at Google. I know I will! Here’s their contact information:
Google Inc.
1600 Amphitheatre Parkway
Mountain View, CA 94043
phone: (650) 253-0000
fax: (650) 253-0001
http://www.google.com/contact/
Remember, making your voice heard is an important part of the democracy and capitalist society in which we live, so make it count!
By American Scooterist Blog on May 30, 2007
We could voice our opinions but the point is Google is a privately owned company (at least I thought it still was). If you really want to get a conservative base and voice to be heard through our buying power I think you almost need to pool the monies between the various conservative (not republican) groups and see if a search engine could be built. Do I think its possible? Yes, its possible. Will it happen? More like a pipe dream.
I think the biggest problem we conservatives face is we are a reactionary group more than a proactive one. Overall, we react to bad omens and bad news. We get mad and a few things may or may not happen in our favor. I think we might be better off if we took up certain causes and laws and stuck to working them until we changed them or matched them more closely to what the founders of this country intended.
Harv