"While I honor Google greatly for the work they’ve done in searching out and compiling old archives from the frontier days of the internet, that doesn’t mean they own the old Usenet message base—does it?"
I am not sure how much work was Google's, and how much Dejanews'.
The copyright on a work originally belongs to the author. Did anybody ever sue Google over massive copyright infringement of their Usenet postings?
Before Dejanews, Usenet used to be a largely ephemeral affair. I am not sure we have a right to tell Google how to keep its own database accessible. Me, I am more worried about the lying bit. If they'll lie about Usenet postings, they'll lie about any search domain.
"Maybe the psychic energy does flow through my hands" (on spoon bending)
"Dealing with this world requires that we get information from other people, and that we have sources we can trust"
I would say: and that we learn to trust our sources
"tricking people into interviews"
Which, by the way, is not wrong in and of itself. Sometimes you can only get to the truth if the person between you and that truth is off his guard. See also: Günter Wallraff, Nelly Bly.
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