Google is large company focused on many different projects, but it is very good to know that their attention is still focused on valuable projects that bring the world closer together. A great follow up to their art project Google now has street view in the Amazon rainforest! Thanks very much for this spectacular project!
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@Google, Amazon, Twitter and Facebook consider ‘nuclear’ blackout over #PIPA and #SOPA
Members of Congress may be on vacation, but that hasn’t calmed critics who say an effort to stamp out online piracy would create an unprecedented threat to free speech on the Internet.
Far from fading from memory, the Stop Online Piracy Act (along with a related Senate bill) has become a rallying point for Web freedom advocates in a debate that has pitted Hollywood and other business interests against some of the biggest titans of the technology world.
Interest in the debate spiked again this week when one of the bill’s opponents suggested that online heavyweights such as Google, Facebook, Amazon and Twitter had considered a “nuclear option” — temporarily shutting down their sites in protest — to raise awareness about the bills, which await lawmakers when they return this month.
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