 xdeadhead220, 221, Whatever It Takes.Premium
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Mechanicsburg, PA
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Re: to be fair please explain what reason justifies censoring images that are plainly already in the public domain. (responding to techie) |
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 tcp1Premium
join:2000-04-17
Herndon, VA
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| What all of you conspiracy rubes fail to realize is that google.com is a private enterprise. Rights to free speech (such as the ones that absolutely do NOT exist on this board by law, fyi) and issues of censorship are when they are concerning a government entity. Google is NOT a government entity, and they are wholly within their right to choose to include or not include certain things for whatever reason they want.
As the free market would have it, sometimes that annoys people - as you can see. All it does is make people realize (shock!) Google is not perfect and may not appease all of the people all of the time.
It is by no means "hidden censorship" or anything involving rights, government, liberties, or the recent unforunate election.
So folks, relax, and stop listening to Coast-to-Coast AM for a few nights. |
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| said by tcp1: Google is NOT a government entity, and they are wholly within their right to choose to include or not include certain things for whatever reason they want I think your missing the point. No one is saying the can't censor. The point is that many people would stop using Google if it were discovered that they were systematically censoring results because of a certain reason. The can censor all they want. I could just choose not to use them if they did.
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| said by biggbrother:I think your missing the point. No one is saying the can't censor. The point is that many people would stop using Google if it were discovered that they were systematically censoring results because of a certain reason. The can censor all they want. I could just choose not to use them if they did. Thank you, exactly. It's basically responsible full-disclosure, and to do otherwise is inherently deceptive to their "customers". The practical question is, though, how do you disclose censorship, if you are supposed to censor the existance of something? Catch-22.
PS. I miss HotBot. That was a pretty decent search engine, and the first major one (IIRC) to use a distributed server "cluster" for searches. DEC's AltaVista service was all running on *one* 64-bit Alpha-based machine, intended to serve as a marketing tool for their (then-new) 64-bit server systems. (There were multiple single servers though, to handle queries from different global geographic regions. The search index was replicated between them though, not distributed/shared, IIRC.) |
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