Snark: to annoy or irritate

"Snark" has been in English language dictionaries since at least 1906, and Lewis Carroll used the word to describe a mythological animal in his poem, The Hunting of the Snark (1874). Most recently, the word has come to characterize snappish, sarcastic, or mean-spirited comments or actions directed at those who annoy or irritate us.

At first, this blog was just going be a place to gripe, but because it's more satisfying to take action than it is to merely complain, now most of the posts/reposts suggest ways to get involved in solving problems.


Friday, August 6, 2010

Google, Don't Be Evil


Google's motto is "Don't be evil," but Google is about to cut a deal with Verizon that would end the Internet as we know it.
According to a front-page New York Times story, the deal would allow "Verizon to speed some online content to Internet users more quickly if the content's creators are willing to pay for the privilege."1
It would create fast Internet lanes for the largest corporations and slow lanes for the rest of us.
That is why CREDO is joining MoveOn, Free Press, and Color of Change in rallying Google users to tell Google, "Don't be evil."
Google is furiously backpeddling on its closed door negotiations with Verizon over the future of the Internet — a direct result of a strong and immediate public backlash. The company has denied some details from the New York Times story, but won't say definitively that it is not striking a deal with Verizon that will stop the FCC from imposing net neutrality rules.
From the beginning, the Internet has been a level playing field that allows everyone to connect to one another and to the world of content available online — whether it's Daily Kos or FOX News.
This deal would change all of that by allowing Google and Verizon to pick what websites you can see over others. It would undermine the open Internet upon which hundreds of millions of people rely.
Our Internet connection should be free of corporate gatekeepers — there's only one Internet, and it shouldn't matter who your provider is or whether you're logging on from home or your cell phone.
Founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin created Google to make information freely available to everyone online.
But this deal is a complete reversal that abandons their core principles. It's evil and Google must walk away from it.
Thank you for working for a better world.
Matt Lockshin, Campaign Manager
CREDO Action from Working Assets
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