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NEWSFLASH: GOOGLE IS EVIL?

The plans that google has, for their toolbar (I never use any toolbars, as they are evil – and have always been the root of many problems) to display autolinks over your content, and not in a ‘banner’ space is well out of order.

Go here and check out a great video made by better bad news

It’s a 12 minute Video Blogmash, where the Better Bad News panel re-mixes commentary and analysis of a pending threat to online free speech drawn from several sources. including :

1. Opt Out Petition

2. Dan Gillmor

3. The Scoblizer

4. Dave Winer

5. Cory Doctorow

6. Time

7. Mark Jen

8. Steve Rubel

9. Kas Log

10. Tim Bray

with sonic support from Plastikman.

The Proposed Search Tool, Auto-Link, Redirects Links On Blogs Abridging Author Text, Intent and Meaning.

Fight it.