Nah, take yer time. These posts aren’t going anywhere, nor is this issue.
Didn’t need to. If you take such a description and magically get “intertubes” (bing that) from it, then you ain’t paying attention.
You simply state google doesn’t host content, and draw no inference from it. You presume it’s not a jermaine point, with no further explanation. Gloss over.
Yes. Which is why I stanted I suppor the FB ban, but don’t quite get all the others.
a) Google doesn’t own that content
b) The act of filtering will never be perfect, so google could only ever make a best effort attempt, so their ability to filter these out without the cooperation of the sites hosting content is overstated
c) Links to content are not the same as content itself. Try to drill through on blocked content from google, and the firewall will kick in. So it’s a bit of a stretch to describe google hits as illicit content. Google images perhaps, but even then if the source page of the image is blocked, the image will be too.
d) It doesn’t change the fact that the buck stops at those who own the computers on which the content is served.
Rubbish.
Running out of gloss yet?
I’ve already commented on this. Are you suggesting that if they were more specific, you would have endorsed the ban? I doubt it…talking about making distinctions without a difference…
It’s spot on, from the point of view I was comming from. You suggested that the ban was inappropriate because it was arbitrary…not all would get punished equally. Yes PTA has the capability to switch things on and off…but the point is, that would be an exercise of throwing the baby out with the bathwater. NOT that whatever reasoning behind any ban of a single corporation, be it FB or Google, would lead you down the slippery slope of banning the whole net.
In other words, yes…it is very much possible to support a ban on FB, and not endanger oursleves of supporting a ban of the Net…or Air…or Water…or Paper.
Does this mean we need to bow over and support PTA in all of it’s actions? No.
I’ve stated my position clearly from the get go: as far as PTA is concerned, I understand the FB ban, but not really google et all. As news emerges, it seems a lot of the blockages are due to inane policies, and lack of tech savvy management at PTA.
Unh…no…illegal=>blocked. Not illegal=>illegal. Yes, it is a banal reasnoing, it’s amazing why so many people can’t grasp such a simple concept.