Unfortunatly this is no longer the case for most big companies who act like bullies and parasites.

These companies must be destroyed: Vivendi/Universal, Sony/BMG, EMI, Time Warner, Fox and others MPAA companies, AT&T/Bell, Comcast, Aliburton, Black Water, Microsoft, Apple, . . .

Who else?

Once upon a time, I saw them in the same light — as Do No Evil, a large company operated by a genuinely concerned people who were out to prove corporations could be corporations and still have a conscience.

That may have been how it was in the beginning, but that isn’t the way it is now.

Cheers!

I have some of my own questions about Doubleclick — issues raised before and now come back again with the advent of NebuAd. But these are old, old issues.

Google is big — as big as Jon says. But I seem them as Friend, not Foe. I think that concerns about privacy WRT Doubleclick ought to be answered in a complete and transparent way — but I also point out that Doubleclick is not new, has never been really warmly welcomed by consumers, and is probably better off in the hands of a Google than they are in the hands of _____________________.