We Speak for Freedom

while a lot of folks get up in arms over so many liberties being given up "for our protection", these same folks fall under the thumb of Google and their ever growing profile on you... because Google makes things shiny and convenient and free.

YouTube - Broadcast Yourself.

what are your thoughts on Google and online profiles?

That's true and scary as hell.  Let's not forget that Google's search results are stacked and screwed too.  Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft have all done deals with China to sensor content that challenges their ideology, like...say...articles that favor Tibetan freedom.  However, Google and its subsidiaries are omnipresent on the Web.  For instance, Google owns  YouTube.  So, even by embedding that video here, you're potentially generating data for the ad monsters.