home bbs files messages ]

Forums before death by AOL, social media and spammers... "We can't have nice things"

   alt.internet.wireless      Fun with wireless Internet access      55,960 messages   

[   << oldest   |   < older   |   list   |   newer >   |   newest >>   ]

   Message 54,795 of 55,960   
   Sqwertz to Johann Beretta   
   Re: 2bad google ruinedd the usnet   
   20 Apr 20 23:58:48   
   
   From: sqwertzme@gmail.invalid   
      
   On Sat, 18 Apr 2020 17:01:52 -0700, Johann Beretta wrote:   
      
   > On 4/8/20 1:07 PM, Sqwertz wrote:   
   >> On Sat, 21 Mar 2020 18:15:02 -0700, Jeff Liebermann wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> Breaking up Google will likely follow the same path as breaking up   
   >>> AT&T in 1982.   
   >>   
   >> I'm not so sure about that.  Google provides valuable services to   
   >> the Intelligence and law enforcement communities, and the Government   
   >> appreciates a single, easily pliable conduit for which to obtain   
   >> that information and services.   
   >>   
   > You don't think AT&T provided the government with a single point to   
   > eavesdrop on people?   
   >   
   > Were you even alive in 1984?   
      
   Cruising the El Camino in a convertible bird-doggin' chicks and   
   bangin' beaver.   
      
   -Randle McMurphy   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

[   << oldest   |   < older   |   list   |   newer >   |   newest >>   ]


(c) 1994,  bbs@darkrealms.ca