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A news channel has reported that a slain homeless man, Cornelius Van Der Vies, was sighted living on virtually in Google Street View. Google's Street View has unintentionally invented a new kind of public discourse about our surroundings. We now have the ability to see our streets on the Web and as a result of that, never has the social impact of our government's policies been so easily viewable. The question behind today's blog entry is: "What does it mean to Google users when the street they wish to view also includes people of the street?"
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