Free Google Wireless Broadband
May 24th, 2010 by ComputerBob
As we all know, Google constantly finds new ways to tempt its users with “free” services — in exchange for reading all of their email messages, recording everywhere that they go on the Internet, collecting all of their private data, and making billions of dollars each year by exploiting that private data.
I’m shocked and saddened that many, many people are eager to trade their privacy and security for a little convenience by making such “deals with the devil.”
Here’s another free Google offering: Google TiSP.
According to Google,
TiSP in-home wireless broadband is:
* Free, fast and highly reliable
* Easy to install — takes just minutes
* Vacuum-sealed to prevent water damage
Of course, the downside is that Google will be able to collect and exploit even more of your private data.
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May 24th, 2010 at 10:43 am
Why are you presenting this as if it’s something real? Google TiSP was a hoax. You didn’t really fall for that one, did you?
http://www.slashgear.com/google-tisp-a-little-april-fools-fun-at-google-014580/
If you want something “Google” to be up-in-arms about, maybe report on Google’s plans to build high-speed broadband networks around the country, although there was a ComputerWorld article that took a skeptical look at those plans: http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9155218/Google_in_the_broadband_business_Hardly
May 24th, 2010 at 12:39 pm
Why are you presenting this as if it’s something real? Google TiSP was a hoax. You didn’t really fall for that one, did you?
If you check out the Tags underneath today’s post, or watch the video, you’ll see that I knew it was a hoax, and I presented it as a joke.
(edit) And it seems to me that any intelligent person who either visits the Google TiSP site or watches the video to which I linked will instantly realize that. (/edit)
I wanted my readers to consider the possible consequences of it being real before they figured out that it wasn’t.