it isn't "irresponsible" to promote google as a proxy at all.
yes, google won't provide all the tinfoil hat privacy you're looking for, but it can provide a way for those high school systems where even webpages with the word proxy in them are blocked.
it is irresponsible to promote a thread on a forum containing an "interesting discussion" when there isn't really much discussion going on, if any discussion at all.
if only this device could figure out what song was coming on next so you could preempt the ridicule your friends will dish out the next time the spice girls come on during a poker game.