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Scott Cleland
Personal blog · precursorblog.compoliticsbusiness
Scott Cleland's personal blog at precursorblog.com covers politics and business. Since 2008, 11 different Hacker News readers have linked it 11 times. The last post was in 2024, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog as a source for net neutrality, copyright policy and criticism of Google. One commenter cites its posts to back their own points about politics and media.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
What Hacker News says?
Google is more dangerous than Facebook. In the later you usually have a persona you pretend to be. But Google knows you better than yourself. You can’t lie to Google. Is your teenage daughter pregnant? Do you have a disease that is socially rejected? Do you want to have an abortion? Are those pimples in your groin an STD? Are you secretly looking for another job? Google probably knows that before you do. And their b…
Comment linking /?q=content/googles-top-ten-anti-privacy-quotes-part-3-googles-own-words-series
on “Facebook is in the privacy spotlight but should Google be next”Submitted Questions to Ask at Google-Fiber Announcement as a story · 25 points
HN discussionEvery representative who joined the net neutrality alliance was defeated[1]. The six companies that control the mainstream media are very in favor of copyright and against net-neutrality. Without the media's support, or at least lack of hostility, a candidate is mute and the publics perception of him/her is distorted. [1] http://precursorblog.com/content/all-95-pccc-net-neutrality-...
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on “White House Considers Joining Publishers To Stamp Out Fair Use At Universities”Submitted Google "uses" 21 times more bandwidth than it pays for as a story · 23 points
HN discussionHere's a fun game: if you start at the beginning of this blog's archive[1] and browse forward, you can spot the exact moment when Google's support for net neutrality landed it on the blogger's enemies list. At first, the anti-Google posts are entirely about net neutrality[2], but in 2007 they start to shift towards more general complaints. Interestingly, the blog started mixing in pro-Microsoft posts at the same tim…
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on “Questions to Ask at Google-Fiber Announcement”Submitted “Slam Dunk” Antitrust Case Against Alphabet-Google as a story · 2 points
HN discussion- aj · 2012-02-15
Submitted Google vs. the World as a story · 2 points
HN discussion Submitted Why Google's CEO may be ducking investor questions as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Glass House Google Throws Stones as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Scott Cleland: shifting political landscape ahead for the FCC as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Fact-checking Google's new privacy principles uncovers some shocking revelations as a story · 1 points
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