[ILUG] Mother of God!

[Colm MacCarthaigh]

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