Evil is Subjective

When asked about Microsoft last week at the GarageGeeks event, Sergey Brin, Google’s co-founder, answered that “Microsoft has a monopoly on being the bad guy”.
Well, I guess Evil is subjective as we’re seeing more and more news items like this from Google:

Google kills Anonymous AdSense account

How Scientology funded the anti-Scientology movement

By Cade Metz in San Francisco †’ More by this author

Published Wednesday 14th May 2008 18:52 GMT

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Exclusive Google has murdered the AdSense account run by one of the web’s most influential anti-Scientology sites.

Yesterday, the search giant cut off all ads served to Enturbulation, a fledgling site dedicated to promoting activism against the Church of Scientology and all its related organizations. This could have something do with the nature of the ads Google was serving. Many of the Google-driven ads funding the anti-Scientology site were paid for by the Church of Scientology.

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