[aha] Killed by Google - Ucciso da Google

penelope.di.pixel penelope.di.pixel at gmail.com
Fri Jun 5 21:27:34 CEST 2009


ciao domenico,
lo so è terribile, che google ti abbia ucciso, ma nello stesso tempo è
magnifico: se ti va mi piacerebbe farti un'intervista per artsblog... (è una
proposta professionale naturalmente, non  uno scherzo!)

abbracci e sentite condoglianze
pp


On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 9:15 PM, xDxD.vs.xDxD <xdxd.vs.xdxd at gmail.com> wrote:

> ahhh, le RFC.
> internet non era proprio stato inventato/progettato/ripensato per questo.
>
> oggi con penelope siamo andati ad una conferenza all'Ara Pacis. Tra
> suggestioni un po' retrò su questa forma di formalismo_innovativo che
> avviene su second life (a parte chi lo usa per fare re-enactment, che è
> molto interessante) e l'idea di avere un foglio bianco su cui comporre
> creare e fare, a un certo punto un tipo tra i relatori l'ha detto.
>
> "vorrei sfatare un mito, quello dell'Open Source"
>
> e si è imbrigliato in una specie di comizio su come sì, lui è un grande fan
> dell'open source, ma poi alla fine servono tanti tanti soldi per le
> infrastrutture, per creare banda, servizi, piattaforme, livelli di servizio
> eccetera. in questa visione della "comodità" che tanto ricorda la "macchina
> per vivere" che descriveva augé nei suoi nonluoghi. comodi, ma assolutamente
> non-antropologici: prego identificarsi e rispettare le regole, assicuriamo
> comfort e la assoluta assenza di problemi; ah, nel processo annulleremo ogni
> vostra differenza, che la riteniamo inutile al buon funzionamento del luogo;
> però non vi preoccupate: predisporremo dei "recinti di differenza
> antropologica in vetrina" a mo' di disneyland etnografico.
>
> soldi per i servizi e le infrastrutture, quindi, che qualcuno dovrà pur
> mettere in mezzo, no? e quindi viva i provider e i fornitori di servizi e
> piattaforme, e il loro strapotere e la loro infima dittatura
> dell'infrastruttura.
>
> giustificando il tutto con un "tanto il mondo è così"
>
> e sugegrendo che, in finale, il mondo funzionava anche benino, visto che
> siamo tutti più felici e dotati di servizi comodità e che magari muoriamo a
> 80 anni  invece che a 40.
>
> mi ero ripromesso di non fare interventi polemici, ma si sa che i buoni
> propositi son i primi ad evaporare, in favore di sigarette e caffè. :)
>
>
> una volta ho fatto un po' di macello su second life. (ricordi domenico? :)
> )
>
> mi avevano dato del "distruttivo". e pare che non passasse proprio il punto
> di vista che quella era una critica ad una illusione.
>
> ovvero all'illusione di avere a disposizione una piattaforma su cui fare
> liberamente le cose.
>
> con questo non voglio dire, naturalmente, "avevo ragione io". ma voglio
> dire semplicemente:
>
> Google, why bother?
> http://www.artisopensource.net/srch/
>
> perchè comunque internet non era una idea malvagia. e la bella ri-tendenza
> verso il p2p che stiamo vedendo in questi giorni - verso i modelli
> dell'autogestione e autodeterminazione, verso una tecnologia del corpo,
> della relazione e dell'emozione, invece che della comodità e della "pappa
> pronta e gradevole" di come tantissimi hanno inteso il 2.0 - è forse
> l'opportunità più interessante che abbiamo a disposizione.
>
> (questo, tra l'altro, c'entra molto anche con la discussione che in un modo
> o nell'altro è attiva in lista da un bel po', partendo da idee à la
> "Antisocial NotWorking", fino ai miei incomprensibili mostri p2p come s1/s2
> )
>
> per il resto: mi dispiace per il lavoro perso.
>
> magari da domani vedremo un mr. domenico.quaranta clonato che, indossando
> una maglietta di Google e dei simpatici gadget elettronici, presenterà a
> mostre e conferenze degli interessanti percorsi di arti contemporanee.
>
> dopo aver fatto firmare ai presenti un bel "terms of service",
> naturalmente.
>
> ciau!
> xDxD
>
>
> On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 8:25 PM, domenico quaranta <qrndnc at yahoo.it> wrote:
>
>>
>> Con la presente intendo informarti che Google ha disabilitato, con
>> iniziativa unilaterale, il mio Account Google. Il che significa:
>>
>> - che l'email quaranta.domenico at gmail.com non è più attiva. Se desideri
>> contattarmi, ti prego di scrivere a qrndnc at yahoo.it o
>> dom at domenicoquaranta.net. Se mi hai scritto nelle ultime ore
>> all'indirizzo Gmail, per favore girami la mail su questi indirizzi;
>> - che i blog http://domenico-quaranta.blogspot.com/ e
>> http://spawnofthesurreal.blogspot.com/, seppure ancora accessibili, non
>> saranno più aggiornati e non sono più di mia proprietà;
>> - che le dispense e i documenti che ho caricato su Google Documents,
>> seppure ancora accessibili, non saranno più aggiornati e non sono più di mia
>> proprietà;
>> - che i miei canali Picasa (http://picasaweb.google.it/quaranta.domenico/)
>> e Youtube (http://www.youtube.com/user/domenicoquaranta) non saranno più
>> aggiornati e non sono più di mia proprietà.
>>
>> Questa notte sono stato ucciso da Google. Se vuoi sapere perché e capire
>> se potrebbe succedere a te, continua a leggere.
>>
>> --
>>
>> With this email I'd like to inform you that Google disabled my Google
>> Account. This means:
>>
>> - that the email address quaranta.domenico at gmail.com is no longer active.
>> If you want to contact me, please use qrndnc at yahoo.it or
>> dom at domenicoquaranta.net. If you wrote me in the last few hours, please
>> send your message to these last addresses.
>> - that the blogs http://domenico-quaranta.blogspot.com/ and
>> http://spawnofthesurreal.blogspot.com/, while still available, won't be
>> updated and no longer belong to me;
>> - that my documents, presentations and teaching material on Google
>> Documents, while still available, won't be updated and no longer belong to
>> me;
>> - that my Picasa (http://picasaweb.google.it/quaranta.domenico/) and
>> Youtube channels (http://www.youtube.com/user/domenicoquaranta) won't be
>> updated and no longer belong to me.
>>
>> This night I've been killed by Google. If you want to know more and
>> understand if you'll be the next, go on reading.
>>
>> ---------------------------------------------------
>>
>> *This night I've been killed by Google*
>> Domenico Quaranta
>>
>> This night I've been killed by Google. When I woke up, I tried to enter my
>> Google Account as usual, but what I got was only a short message:
>>
>> «Sorry, your account has been disabled.»
>>
>> “This fucking password!”, I thought, and I retyped it. Same message. At
>> the end of it there was a question mark with a link. I clicked on it, and
>> this is what I read:
>>
>> «If you've been redirected to this page from the sign in page, it means
>> that access to your Google Account has been disabled.
>>
>> In most cases, accounts are disabled because of a perceived violation of
>> either the Google Terms of Service or product-specific Terms of Service.
>>
>> Google reserves the right to:
>>
>> * Suspend a Google Account from using a particular product or the entire
>> Google Accounts system if the Terms of Service or product-specific policies
>> are violated.
>> * Terminate your account at any time, for any reason, with or without
>> notice.
>>
>> If your Google Account has been disabled, please review the relevant Terms
>> of Service before attempting to create another account. For guidelines on a
>> specific Google product, please visit the product homepage for a link to its
>> Terms of Service.
>>
>> If you believe your account has been disabled in error, please contact us
>> so that we can assist you.»
>>
>> “Terminate your account at any time, for any reason, with or without
>> notice”? Wow! If God exists, probably he is more democratic than Google.
>> But, well, of course it's a mistake. So, let's fill the form.
>>
>> I did it, and this is what I got:
>>
>> «Thanks for contacting our Google Accounts team. Please note that we'll
>> only reply if we have additional information to share about your disabled
>> account.»
>>
>> I take a cigarette. “Hope is a good breakfast but a bad supper”, I think.
>> Tons of emails, two blogs, about one hundred images, videos, documents, web
>> pages, presentations, two years of work lost for... what? Because I believed
>> in a fallible God.
>>
>> I don't believe in God, actually. That's why I always have to understand
>> what happens to my life. So, I start making some research. Google invites
>> you to put your whole hard disk online. If you have a Google account, you
>> can check your email, but you can also run one or more blogs. Picasa lets
>> you share your pictures, and since Google bought Youtube, you can create and
>> access a Youtube channel with the same username and password. Google
>> Documents is a kind of Microsoft Office. You can create and share word
>> documents, spreadsheets, Power Point presentations, databases. It's far but
>> easy to fascinate me, but if I find something useful, I use it. So, I run
>> two blogs, I have a Picasa account, a Youtube channel, and several documents
>> online – most of them being material I use for teaching, and that I share
>> with my students. All under the same Google Account.
>>
>> So, let's check if everything is working. My email doesn't work anymore.
>> R.I.P. My blogs are still online, but I don't have the right to edit, delete
>> or update them anymore. Actually, I'm not the owner of these sites anymore.
>> They are still there, but they aren't mine – they belong to Google. I
>> realize right now that they always did. As for my Youtube videos and my
>> documents, the same as above: only Google can decide if my students can go
>> on studying what I teach. Finally, I look for my Picasa channel: it's gone.
>>
>> “You asshole!”, you may say. “You are boring us with your fucking story,
>> and it ends up that you uploaded some sex images or copyrighted material.” I
>> didn't. What I put on my Picasa account are just my photos: some holiday
>> pictures (as private albums, accessible only to me – and Google of course)
>> and some pics related to the exhibitions I organized up to now (as public
>> albums). I go through the terms of agreement about one hundred times, and
>> what I understand is that I didn't violate any rule. Maybe the following
>> one?
>>
>> «4.5 You acknowledge and agree that while Google may not currently have
>> set a fixed upper limit on the number of transmissions you may send or
>> receive through the Services or on the amount of storage space used for the
>> provision of any Service, such fixed upper limits may be set by Google at
>> any time, at Google’s discretion.»
>>
>> I don't know how many megabytes I used – unlike for Flickr, there were no
>> upper limits for Picasa till yesterday. Maybe I used too much disk space and
>> they decided to kick me out?
>>
>> I don't know. Probably, I'll never know. Since this morning, I wrote about
>> 10 emails to Google, but I got no answer. I can just look back to my dead
>> account and wonder: is it dead because God decided to kill it or because it
>> violated some stupid rule?
>>
>> Of course, I will migrate on other platforms. I'll do even if my Google
>> Account comes back from hell. Nothing is really lost, besides my time. But
>> don't forget: if it happened to me, it can happen to anybody, at any time,
>> everywhere. Everything is there, in the contract you signed with God – or it
>> was the Devil?:
>>
>> «4.3 As part of this continuing innovation, you acknowledge and agree that
>> Google may stop (permanently or temporarily) providing the Services (or any
>> features within the Services) to you or to users generally at Google’s sole
>> discretion, without prior notice to you.
>>
>> 4.4 You acknowledge and agree that if Google disables access to your
>> account, you may be prevented from accessing the Services, your account
>> details or any files or other content which is contained in your account.»
>>
>>
>> ---
>>
>> Domenico Quaranta
>>
>> mob. +39 340 2392478
>> email. dom at domenicoquaranta.net
>> home. vicolo San Giorgio 18 - 25122 brescia (BS)
>> web. http://www.domenicoquaranta.net/
>>
>> "The world we actually have does not meet my standards". Philip K. Dick
>>
>>
>>
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