[rasterizer]

HN is seemingly so oversaturated with NSA items that they're seeping into all submissions regardless:

I'll assume you are not trolling and just misinformed so I'll address your 'elephants':

- Google already said that there are no "links": http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/blog/2013/jun/19/google...

- Statistical analysis of Google closures shows that they deprecate products at below industry pace, so your impression about that is also wrong: http://www.gwern.net/Google%20shutdowns

[dominotw]

Did i miss something his response on the link posted was

'We do push back where we can, and do everything we can to protect our users’ data. But we don’t write the laws.'