The New Web Project: Google, Microsoft, AOL, W3C in a nefarious plot to take over the internet

Conspiracy theory site "Troogle" believes they've discovered a plan by Google and its Bilderbergian allies to take over the internet with something called The New Web Project:

Google has plans to work together with Microsoft and the World Wide Web Consortium (which we discovered yesterday). But also Mozilla and AOL are involved. And.. because of the secrecy of all this (and the cars parked at Bilderberg's) we believe the GOVERNMENT is involved too.

There is a TheNewWebProject.com website, registered by someone in the Netherlands. Time to start wrapping each packet in tinfoil.

15 Comments

Anonymous Anonymous

#1 – 3:02 PM June 17, 2009

the guy in Netherlands who is the owner listed the thenewwebproject.com's WHOIS details is the same guy who runs Troogle. LAME.

tallpat

#2 – 3:13 PM June 17, 2009

Mozilla and secrecy are involved? I'm gonna need more foil.

Halloween Jack

#3 – 3:16 PM June 17, 2009

Going to take over the Internet? Heh.

kleer001

#4 – 3:41 PM June 17, 2009

In the future we say to silly things like this "Even China could not stop the Internet."
Paranoia is something to do privately in your own home and unseemly in public.

valis

#5 – 4:16 PM June 17, 2009

I love how AOL is involved. Secretly AOL is a super efficient purveyor of arcane and evil computer knowledge!

Bottlekid

#6 – 4:34 PM June 17, 2009

http://zapatopi.net/afdb/

Clay

#7 – 9:13 PM June 17, 2009

Ah, so a dude dropped a sheet of paper outside an hotel with amazing and terrible information on it. Quite the handy happenstance, indeed.

I imagine it's a lot more fun for them to write about that sort of thing than the somewhat moreboring and complicated things going on under our noses.

Wrickwrackscar

#8 – 2:42 AM June 18, 2009

I did some googling, and it seems this is an attempt at 'transmedia story-telling', ran by the medialab from HvA, an institute for higher education here in the Netherlands.

They have passworded their pages now, but google managed to cache one of the pages before they did that. The cache is here (in dutch):
http://74.125.77.132/search?q=cache:sIpDaOYqeMwJ:transmedia7.medialab.hva.nl/tag/verhaal/+Igor+Tinbergen

Basicaly, they've made up some characters: some of them folks fired from google, one of them still working at google on a secret project, who are trying to expose this 'plot'. They want the media to report on google's 'intelligent tagging' system, that's supposed to be so advanced they managed to get their hands on secret government information so google basically has the government in their pockets.

They plan to claim involvement by the dutch and US governments, the cia, a supposed terrorism-arrest for one of them, complete with torture and the works.

It's a nice attempt, but if you're setting up a story about how google is taking over the world, make sure to stop them from indexing your blog ;)

Oh, I just read that their 'forgetting' to lock the pages from the start will be the reason google and the cia arrest one of them.

I wonder how many media will publish this ;)

dculberson

#9 – 6:43 AM June 18, 2009

Oooh, wrickwrackscar, you've totally bought into the Google conspiracy! Don't you think it's handy that only Google's servers have that discrediting information? Wake up, sheeple! The troof will be known!

Seriously, though.. If Microsoft, Google, and Mozilla could collaborate well on something? It would probably end up being awesome. But the chances of that are about none.

dculberson

#10 – 6:45 AM June 18, 2009

Oh, and Clay? Those "bonds" are hopeless forgeries - actually not even that. They're fakes of documents that have never existed. You can buy them on eBay.

At least one of the two men arrested is a known con man. Guess what he's known for! No, guess! That's right, ripping people off with fake bonds.

Wrickwrackscar

#11 – 7:31 AM June 18, 2009

@#9: Microsoft collaborating well? That would be a first, unless you count SCO ;)

dculberson

#12 – 11:08 AM June 18, 2009

Exactly.

Lycanth

#13 – 6:40 PM June 18, 2009

Is it time to put on my tinfoil hat?

PNYX

#14 – 8:18 PM June 18, 2009