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Google Under Fire Over Racist Blogs
AcidAUS writes "Google is being accused of refusing to remove racist blogs targeting minority groups in Australia. Google, whose corporate motto is "don't be evil", says it will take the blogs in question offline only if ordered to do so by a court."
"But I have to admit, if you take out uncovered meat and place it outside, without cover, and the cats come to eat it -- then whose fault is it, the cats' or the uncovered meat's? This case is no different."
Uh.. You can get uhm.. a good look at a steak by sticking your head up the butcher's ass.. er no, that's not it. The bull's ass. No, er...
I take offence that. You're implying that the world is full of mealy-mouthed, small minded people with nothing better to do that to tell people what they can and can't say, so that they don't have to hear somethign they don't like.
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Like that?
especially in the f***ing internet
wt*? Slashdot censorship!! I knew we couldn't trust those ******* bastards, I'll ******* kill them, those mo
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Spoken like a true terrorist.
Don't worry everyone, I've contacted the Department of Homeland Security.
"Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." - H.L. Mencken
Ah, but: "A witty saying proves nothing." -- Voltaire.
I think most will agree that the real world cannot be boiled down to such absolute statements. There are certainly times and places where censorship is a lesser evil than what it's meant to prevent. However, we all probably agree that those times are few and far between and probably agree that this case is not one of them. But I for one would not over-generalize from this.
"No question always demands an absolute yes or no answer"
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Yes all questions do!
Nice irony there. You get frustrated ... because you're right to see things in shades of gray and they're wrong to see things in black and white? Nice binary thinking mr analog!
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Kinda. I have dentures, so I soaked them.
Today, no. I posted when the article was listed for subscribers, which was yesterday. Suck it.
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May the Maths Be with you!
By that token, perhaps they should have refused the Chinese government's demand of censorship, and offered to put a "Warning: rated subversive" notice on those pages.
Censorship is telling a man he can't have a steak just because a baby can't chew it. --Mark Twain