Yeah. I was pretty shocked by this statement:
"The universal index is the shared heritage of humanity. It ought to be owned by us all. No corporation or nation has the right to privatize the index, commercialize the index, censor what they do not like or auction search ranking to the highest bidder."
Google created the index. You don't have the right to just declare that it should belong to anyone else. No one knows how to maintain and improve it as much as the creator (i.e. Google). No individual or group has the right to steal the index, control the index, etc. Create your own index, or just don't use Google's. Go use Bing, or Ask.com.
This is a very serious matter!
You might not be old enough to remember this, but it caused quite a stir back in 1979, and almost started a war, when some kid logged into the WOPR at Norad and started simulating a Soviet attack. Luckily they were able to stop the systems from a real attack by throwing the computer system into a tic-tac-toe loop.
Then of course there was the Da Vinci virus that almost sunk that oil tanker. Something needs to be done about this!
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If you think about it, Mark Bridger doesn't come in December either, so it's not a very good joke either. Does the UK have laws against bad jokes too?
Yeah. I was pretty shocked by this statement: "The universal index is the shared heritage of humanity. It ought to be owned by us all. No corporation or nation has the right to privatize the index, commercialize the index, censor what they do not like or auction search ranking to the highest bidder." Google created the index. You don't have the right to just declare that it should belong to anyone else. No one knows how to maintain and improve it as much as the creator (i.e. Google). No individual or group has the right to steal the index, control the index, etc. Create your own index, or just don't use Google's. Go use Bing, or Ask.com.
This is a very serious matter! You might not be old enough to remember this, but it caused quite a stir back in 1979, and almost started a war, when some kid logged into the WOPR at Norad and started simulating a Soviet attack. Luckily they were able to stop the systems from a real attack by throwing the computer system into a tic-tac-toe loop. Then of course there was the Da Vinci virus that almost sunk that oil tanker. Something needs to be done about this!