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Google vs. Evil
wideangle writes "'The world's biggest, best-loved search engine owes its success to supreme technology and a simple rule: Don't be evil. Now the geek icon is finding that moral compromise is just the cost of doing big business. Take Brin's decision to refuse all alcohol and tobacco advertising. The fact that Google accepts advertising for adult content sites is an intriguing commentary on Brin's morality: Cigarettes and booze are evil; porn is not. It's a policy that would become progressively harder to defend were Google to go public.'"
``To be even stranger, the advertisements are usually not even about guns - just the company may happen to also sell parts.''
Which takes it into the realm of idealism...apparently Google advocates a world without guns but with sex...hmm, think I could live with that.
Please correct me if I got my facts wrong.
I agree, Googles anti-killing people policy is just wacky.
Who in the heck uses Google to find porn?
Newsgroups and P2P are the geeks porn engines >:)
Karma: The shiznight, mostly because I am the Drizzle.
Maybe i'm jsu jaded, but I always thought that evil would always triumph because good is dumb.
"Moderate drinking can help prevent amputated limbs" -- Abigail Zuger, NYTimes, 12/31/02
My wife is a pornography addict, always buying a new DVD when we travel and she sees a new shop of adult toys. We don't really make love anymore, it's just sex.
Can I have her email address?
Kudos to them, then, for standing behind their beliefs
I suppose then they also stand behind censorship and autocratic governments?
Megakudos!
With all due respect - READ THE FUCKING ARTICLE
This is about ads, not the index.
Your post sounds good at first, but upon deeper exploration you'll see that it's:
a.) Childish
b.) Poorly thought-out
c.) Discriminatory
d.) A disservice to Internet users
...Now I feel old. My first porn required the use of a 2400bps modem, a local BBS, and a pilfered (or fraudulent) login and password.
...and that's the way the cookie crumbles.
Only reason it has such impact there (and in other places)is that noone really wants to risk being not politically correct first.
Also, see the recent events in France where the politicians, when proposing laws against prostitution, were faced with the ultimatum from the hookers: "If you do that, we will tell everyone what you have done, with personal details and even how small your penis is."
I have no reason to believe that this kind of double morality would not be common everywhere else where it is pc to say that porn is bad.
My statement excludes Japanese porn, of course. I don't mind watching an attractive and nimble Asian lady take it from behind while partially wearing a Catholic school girl's uniform, I just hate the part when the octopus demon slithers on screen and takes a dump on her forehead. There is something very wrong with that.
Searched the web for evil.
Results 1 - 10 of about 10,400,000.
Search took 0.10 seconds.
A message from the system administrator: 'I've upped my priority. Now up yours.'
Am I screwed up? Yes, but not because of porn.
Fast-food restaurants take away all the pleasure of a fine meal, so I think Google probably should censor junk food establishments as well. They have just as bad an effect on one's life as tobacco and firearms do.
My wife is a fast-food addict, always buying hamburgers and tacos when we travel and she sees a new fast-food restaurant. We really don't eat dinner any more, it's just food. There's no presentation or subtlety and everything is so high in fat that I just feel bloated and disgusted.
Fast food makes "quick meals" even worse by focusing on certain ingredients. People who've been on a steady diet of junk food often want to get right to the fat, starch, and salt they crave most, which leaves me wondering "What the fuck happened to the home-cooked meal?"
While there can be other physical or psychological causes of eating junk food, the drive-through window is a major cause of "learned" junk food eating. Junk food is designed to stimulate the appetite. Because fast food is usually a hurry-up job, eaten in just 5-10 minutes, people learn to get their meals over with very quickly. This is another reason why fast food is bad.
Shortened mealtime? Excessive fat and salt? Are these the tools of a great chef?
I plan on writing a letter to Sergey Brin at Google and encouraging him to stop linking to demeaning, nutrition-ruining junk food.
My girlfriend quit smoking and drinking the day she found out she was pregnant. If she didn't, I'd be getting spammed with "She's evil, make her stop" and stuff. Now, if I had nude pics of my pregnant girlfriend, I'd be spammed with "Where's the pics at??"
Nobody's ever gotten all "porned" up and gotten behind the wheel of a car and killed someone else.
and Google was a guy, I'd sooo marry him.
Wer mit Ungeheuern kämpft, mag zusehn, dass er nicht dabei zum Ungeheuer wird. --Nietzsche
I don't smoke and don't drink alcohol 'cause they are the way of devil inside you...
:-)
p0rN on the other way is good, since I run a huge p0rN site, collect p0rN movies and use my holy stick to beat the evil from bad girls
Google was created as a reasearch project by one of the most reputable universities in the world.
Though tobacco users won't admit it, great academic minds will rarely agree with the concept of smoking.
However, find me a student who sees something wrong with porn...