(He doesn’t seem to realize that he’s trivializing the victims of Germany’s actual crimes and bombing casualties.) Nope, the “ default” position of everything in King Jeff’s perfectly run society should be “ publicness,” he thunders: “Germany has now diminished the public. A digital Dresden! Jarvis accuses these shy German citizens, a quarter-million of them in a population of 82 million, of “desecrating the landscape” somehow, by creating gaps in the seamlessness of Google surveillance, limiting the clumsy TSA-like intrusiveness he demands with the totalitarian wrath of a would-be digital dictator. Indeed, he reaches embarrassing heights of rhetorical excess in condemning this blasphemy: He approvingly cites a German commenter who suggests that by allowing for privacy opt-outs, Germany is “digitally bombing its own buildings,” the pixilated blurs the equivalent of bomb craters in the virtual landscape. Jarvis, who wrote a long, sycophantic book called What Would Google Do? (thus equating Google with Jesus), shockingly can’t abide such sensitivity even from his Google overlords.
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