On Wed, Feb 15, 2006 at 09:50:52AM +0000, Colm Buckley wrote:
> * The man has his own reasons for beating you up
> * Sometimes you deliberately provoke him and get beaten up
> * Other times you accidentally provoke him and get beaten up
> * I come along and offer you a route home which can't provoke him
> * Along the way, I point out side alleys saying "if you'd gone down
> there, you'd have been beaten up"
Google are not acting passively here, but are actively preventing access
to the knowledge, it really is a lesser form of the beating, not an
avoidance.
> Rather, Google is trying to improve the experience of the users
> in accessing all the *other* information. Which makes up the
> *overwhelming* bulk of the corpus. The best we can do is demonstrate
> good faith in pointing out where information has been removed, and
> trusting in the creativity of our users. Remember, it's a blacklist,
> not a whitelist.
Google; Hacking China from the inside, backdooring for freedom!
I have no doubt that none of the techs in Google are exactly going out
of their way to make the filtering perfect, and to an extent that's
commendable.
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Colm MacCárthaigh Public Key: colm+pgp at stdlib.net
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