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[mbafactory]

It is the dual nature of the information, you just have it; use depends on you. Whether you will use it for destructive purpose or something else pertains to the hands it is in. We can easily say, google is to blame for all the terrorist attacks on the earth; but then consider the following arguments:
1. People should not come out of their houses for they might be victim of some similar tragedy,
2. Internet is the root to all the evil pertaining to high end technology, it should be banned thereby.
3. For the fear of death tomorrow we should stop enjoying our lives today.

Hope no one will agree with the above logic, for we make rules to facilitate the life on earth while developing various tools to make it more comfortable. Development is a phase which comes at the cost of learning with such incidents.
No one is to blame for these incidents, but rather we should learn how to prevent these things from happening further.

[contactskn]

Yes dear friend google earth or any other utility as such which is being started for good in this world, are in one way or other misused by the evil people out there wheather they are terrorists or any other person or organisation who don't enjoy living in peace and don't even let others live in peace, what to do people with such bad tendency will be there in one ways or the other.

[triplebtalk]

Google Earth is an amazingly useful tool banning it would be absolutely ridiculous. These people are the reason that people can no longer know the truth. The terrorism that is so emminent around the world is the reason that hundreds of thousands of Afghanis, Iraqis, Inidans, Pakistanis, Arabs and Kurds are living in fear everyday. They think that because there "God" told them to do it, it is right, I just wan't to make one thing clear to anyone (it doesn't matter: Extremist Christian, Extremist Catholic, Extremist Hindu, Extremist Muslim, Extremist Buddhist etc), killing someone in the name of your "God" does not make the killing lawful. I agree that people are just trying to blame the Mumbai attacks on something, and taking out Google Earth is WRONG, this service is exactly the same as a map or an aerial photograph, we are not going to ban them I hope (hopefully not in Sydney, traffic is already bad enough). Then trying to put it down to a GPS styled piece of equipment, again designed to make our life easier, what do you think, Glass Bottles were made to drink out of it, some people stab people with them, same with chainsaws, made to cut down trees, can be used to kill people, it just depends who you are, and suddenly you can change a completely innocent item into a violent weapon (yes, Google Earth is a "weapon of the mind" for some people).

Edited by triplebtalk, 19 January 2009 - 06:30 PM.