::fibreculture:: Sydney all a-blur

[dt]

i know everybody's more interested in talking about social networking  
platforms and Second Life these days... but are there any good  
old-fashioned Paranoids left out there?

this (below) raises some big questions about freedom of information,  
the corporate-state info-nexus, etc. would love to hear from some  
enraged Google-bashers (if you exist?)...

dt


(from SMH online)
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2007/08/13/1186857396182.html

Much of Sydney's CBD as it appears in the satellite images on Google  
Maps Australia has been fuzzed out, just weeks before the APEC summit.

Google says the imagery was downgraded as a result of a "commercial  
issue" with a supplier, but the move has aroused speculation it was  
done at the request of police in order to minimise the risk of a  
terrorist attack during the September summit, where Sydney will play  
host to 21 world leaders including U.S. President George W. Bush....



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