Resistance came swiftly and often. By January 2009, Street View was facing opposition in Germany and Japan. … He told a reporter that it was all simply part of a "cycle of people understanding exactly what it is and what it isn't and what they shouldn't really be concerned about"—in other words, the dispossession cycle. … He cleverly equated any resistance to Google's incursions with the anti-freedom-of-expression interests of authoritarian governments and their "closed information societies." This would become a standard rhetorical device for Google and its allies as they executed their offense.

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