I dont see why these big wigs would do something like that?
Now I understand that this is a capitalist system, and if you want something, no matter what it is(i.e information)you do just like you would with anything else, buy it.
What I do not understand, is why they would stoop to this level of enforcement when people are still watching their news stations.
The thing about that though, is that sometimes people dont like being told whats going on in the world by a person with a cheesy smile and a cardboard cutout hairpiece, they like to read about things on their own. This helps these companies by driving people to their websites while at the sametime creating revenue. Not to mention all the advertisers that pay to help them bring out the news.
This IMO is because our govt is getting out ofcountrol, and everyone is scrambling to either try to stop the flow of uncontrolled information, or trying to get a bigger piece of the pie before the baker quits his job.
I think this whole attempt at stopping the internet or portions of it is a suicide mission by anyone who attempts to do so. America loves 3 things...
Monday Night Football, Beer, and our Internet. Mess with any of those 3, say bye bye, because those will be the three things that will actually get us off our ass to fight.

Originally posted by tezzajw

News Corp, Microsoft want to lock Google out

[url=http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/breaking-news/news-corp-microsoft-want-to-lock-google-out/story-e6frf7ko-1225802075810]www.heraldsun.com.au[/url ]

MICROSOFT has held talks with Rupert Murdoch's News Corp over a possible plan for the software giant to pay the media company to remove its news websites from Google, a report said today.
The plan sets a scene for a battle between search engines for access to websites and puts pressure on search juggernaut Google to start paying for content, the Financial Times said.

(visit the link for the full news article)

YAY! Now we wont have the garbage that is fox news comming up in google searches.
And nothing of value was lost.
Seriously, the best thing that could happen is that Fox becomes an island that noone goes to visit, kinda like Cuba.

The reason behind this is transparent and easy to see.

If they can say anything that they release on the net, cannot even be carried by Google, can you imagine if anyone tries to put it in a blog.

BOOM, no more internet news.

Kind of makes sense on the ISP treaty we heard about.

They are just going to ban anyone that even tries to write about news, except of course the propaganda news networks.

Can you say V for VENDETTA.

The ENDISNIGHE, in more ways than one.

This was inevitable. Google plans on producing their own operating system, which would obviously go head on with Windows 7. Its gonna get very ugly soon.

Originally posted by Common Good

This IMO is because our govt is getting out ofcountrol

That sounds like a reach CG - I can't even see the edges of that one

An article about the cream of the private crop, the real PTB and you place the above in the equation





[edit on 22-11-2009 by Janky Red]

Okay, either everyone posting here but me has totally misconstrued the OP. I read it as that Murdoch will start restricting access to his news material.

Once a precedent is set, can you say access rights to all news sources?

You guys are going on about different Operating Systems? WTF.

Originally posted by endisnighe
Okay, either everyone posting here but me has totally misconstrued the OP. I read it as that Murdoch will start restricting access to his news material.

Once a precedent is set, can you say access rights to all news sources?

You guys are going on about different Operating Systems? WTF.

Microsoft and Google are boxing. Don't you get it? This kind of a deal with Murdoch will hurt Google because Google just kicked Microsoft in the head. Why is that so hard to understand?

Originally posted by endisnighe
Okay, either everyone posting here but me has totally misconstrued the OP. I read it as that Murdoch will start restricting access to his news material.

Once a precedent is set, can you say access rights to all news sources?

You guys are going on about different Operating Systems? WTF.

The big picture -

Google is about to change the technological paradigm which will threaten MS's dominance in their prime market. The theory is that MS will use Murdoch's holdings in a way that creates incentive to stay with Microsoft's OS. FOX is the carrot - Microsoft is the stick.

Google is the Bazooka

This will not restrict news at all. This is all a bunch of hooey.

Microsoft and Murdoch are like two little babies whining from inside a crib about Google's success. Now here comes Google to take a huge dump right on their heads.

Microsoft are still annoyed and not being able to merge with Yahoo, so they have done the next best thing and directly approached a major content provider. Such is business.

All that will happen is that the new corp companies will lose views and thier ad rates will go down.

there are many news sites right now that google cant penetrate.

What this is, is that other large companies are realizing that google how to much power they are trying cut it down. mark Cuban another billionaire said he would pay the top 1000 indexed sites a million each to close them selves off from google.

Its all about control and power and google has to much of it for the liking of other moguls.

oh well i had enough of M$ so i guess i be buying googles Os when it comes out next year.. Stick that in your pipe and smoke it M$

As an eversor assassin you should be able to put an end to this..
Smite these blasphemous heretics in the name of the God Emperor!

Originally posted by TheLaughingGod
As an eversor assassin you should be able to put an end to this..
Smite these blasphemous heretics in the name of the God Emperor!

With the way that GW police their intellectual copyright, I wouldn't be surprised to see them trying to petition Google to block access to our posts. I have a good force of Harlequin Troupers who might disagree with the censorship, though! The Laughing God would be proud of my Death Jesters!

Anyway, that's kind of off topic.

As was mentioned, we look like being on the brink of a new era, with the MS dominance being seriously challenged. About time, I suppose. As long as something better comes out of the fight.

Provided the internet remains relatively open and 'free', that's all that matters, I guess.