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Cascading Failure

Ian Bogost’s site got script-kiddied, Google marked it as being a malware site, and then Twitter (which uses Google’s malware system to detect spam) took Google’s word and suspended his account.

As Google offers more and more business to business services like malware detection, and more and more third-parties use those services, this particular type of Googlization can only grow in impact. And the worst part of it is, you can’t do anything about it. One can choose not to maintain a Google account or to use Google services, but one can’t prevent Google from maintaining you.

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I'm M. Jackson Wilkinson, a technologist, designer, speaker, educator, and writer in San Francisco. I recently moved from Washington, DC to work as a Senior Product Designer at LinkedIn, and am happy to take your feedback. I'm from Philadelphia, went to Bowdoin College in Maine, root for the Phillies, and love to sing.

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