death of teh intarweb predict0red

[waider]

This sort of thing has come up before, but basically someone's written to boingboing ragging on about how google will destroy the known world with its ToS. I don't get this. You're free to simply not use the service. There's nobody forcing you to do so. If you don't like it, find something you do like and go for that. Maybe this is supposed to be alerting people who wouldn't otherwise check terms of service, but I can't see that it needs to be so bloody alarmist about it.

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[king-mob.livejournal.com]

I think what he's alerting people to is the possiblity that some cool new feature Google offers might have the Orkut terms of service attached to it in some way. I do think he's overreacting a bit, I can't see Google having suddenly figured out "And we'll own everyone's unpublished novels! And their goth poetry! And their crummy Acid Pro loops! WORLD DOMINATION IS UPON US!"