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Google threatens Australia
tszaboo:
--- Quote from: Berni on January 22, 2021, 01:17:15 pm ---Google is doing the right thing here.
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Something something, slippery slope. They can do it to your country next, or your industry, because they were allowed to. Google decides if something is good, something is bad. If one the presidential candidate is bad or good. Even if you agree with it this time, maybe not the next time.
Ed.Kloonk:
Nobody wants to talk about the taxation issue.
rstofer:
--- Quote from: S. Petrukhin on January 22, 2021, 11:07:46 pm ---
--- Quote from: MK14 on January 22, 2021, 11:53:30 am ---
It is rumored Google recently shut off the official president of the United States of America (although it seems, they were probably right to do it), along with Twitter, Facebook and maybe others.
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The 70 million Americans who voted for Trump probably won't agree with you. :)
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I suppose some of those folks gave up Twitter for Parler until Parler was dumped off of Amazon's AWS and Apple removed the app from their store.
There's a fundamental problem with 'echo chambers' regardless of political slant. They tend to validate clearly dangerous positions and the 'whack-a-do's get reinforcement.
How to balance that kind of rhetoric with the 1st Amendment is problematic.
--- Quote ---“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”
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The thing is, the assemblies have to be peaceful. It is a protest against the Government, not Nike or the boutiques in Beverly Hills. Looting is not included in the 1st Amendment.
Ground_Loop:
I see globally complaints about the evil rich not paying their fair share of taxes. Do you have a figure in mind that would correspond to Google's fair share.
rstofer:
--- Quote from: NANDBlog on January 22, 2021, 11:45:40 pm ---
--- Quote from: Berni on January 22, 2021, 01:17:15 pm ---Google is doing the right thing here.
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Something something, slippery slope. They can do it to your country next, or your industry, because they were allowed to. Google decides if something is good, something is bad. If one the presidential candidate is bad or good. Even if you agree with it this time, maybe not the next time.
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Google is in the business of selling clicks. It does them no good to shut out millions of users generating billions of clicks. There is no way they cut off Australia but they can sure cut off a few content providers. OTOH, the proposed Australian law may have other implications about which I know nothing. One thing is certain, Google will work in its own best interest. Their Board of Directors will insist on it.
Of course the content providers are also selling clicks and they will sell a heck of a lot less if they aren't in the Google response to a search. Getting the governments involved in this won't result in a happy ending for anybody but the people that get hurt the worst are the content providers. Google will simply omit the links. Providers will become unknown unless particular users have them bookmarked.
Everybody wants the government to help them out, few are happy with the results.
--- Quote ---The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help.
Ronald Reagan
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