Freakery

This arrogant control-freakery is what I feared when Google announced Android in 2007: Carriers have exploited Android's openness to treat their customers like their servants. ❋ Rob Pegoraro (2010)

I see some signs that this latest outburst of freakery may be starting to backfire on the GOP. ❋ Unknown (2009)

But I have always known that there was a darker side to himhis obsessiveness, his self-centerdness, his control-freakery, his capacity for self-deception, his conviction that he was always right, his almost casual cruelty when his own interests were at stake. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Oh, to be a young believer in Philadelphia right now, where the spirit of Christian activism is mingling vigorously with an apparently unkillable strain of old-school countercultural Jesus-freakery. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Perhaps it's down to film-makers trying to reconnect with something "real", in these cases the golden age of video nasties and their own adolescent horror freakery. ❋ Unknown (2012)

That's why the Apple iPhone sells like hot cakes, even to geeks who despise the company's control freakery. ❋ John Naughton (2010)

So, individual ignorance or scepticism, combined with corporate control freakery, might also limit meaningful voting. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Isn't that just typical of the control freakery of the Greens that "They know best"? ❋ Norfolk Blogger (2009)

Still others, however, see this apparent contest as theatre, more control freakery by the military strongman behind the scenes, Than Shwe. ❋ Simon Roughneen (2011)

If you voted Labour in 2001 or 2005 then you are partly to blame for what is happening; what you learnt from 1997 to 2001 should have told you all you needed to know about this Labour government's integrity and their control-freakery. ❋ Not A Sheep (2009)

Instead Labour conferences are just incredibly bring. party of this is in part because ruling parties do not have the freedom to allow party conferences to dictate policy willy nilly, but in great part it is more to do with Labour's control freakery. the clearest example of this was the throwing out of a delegate a few years ago by a bunch of heavies. ❋ Norfolk Blogger (2009)

But if you tackle those subjects you're more likely to be lauded for it than reviled for breaching the taboo -- assuming you're approaching them/as topics/rather than just expressing some fucked-up personal freakery. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Chances are good that Apple and Google, today's dominant players, will also miss a beat at some point, in Apple's case perhaps through control freakery, in Google's because of creepiness with personal data. ❋ Jr. Holman W. Jenkins (2011)

You can argue that it's wrong for Apple to lock out Flash and even prohibit developers from rewriting Flash applications to run on the iPhone (though that's far from the worst of Apple's iPhone control-freakery). ❋ Unknown (2010)

I t is telling that many so-called 'Greens' were once rabid socialists or Communists who have seen the Green movement as a wonderful vehicle for their statist convictions, which have little to do with the environment and everything to do with contro freakery. ❋ Unknown (2010)

This is an extraordinarily arrogant sort of control-freakery: First Apple has asserted the right to veto developers 'iPhone software for any reason, and now it won't let them cover their bets by starting with a cross-platform code base. ❋ Unknown (2010)