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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.'"
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?
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.
Am I screwed up? Yes, but not because of porn.
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...