[Off Topic] Google and fair access to information

Juan Vuletich jmvsqueak at uolsinectis.com.ar
Fri Feb 3 15:31:10 UTC 2006


In http://www.google.com/intl/en/terms_of_service.html we read:

"...Google cannot and does not screen the sites before including them..."

which is good, but afterwards it says:

"... under no circumstances shall Google or its licensors be held liable for
any delay or failure in performance resulting directly or indirectly from
... riots, insurrections, civil disturbances, ..., floods, storms,
explosions, acts of God, war, governmental actions, orders of domestic or
foreign courts or tribunals, ..."

Mentioning "acts of God" is at least funny, but "governmental actions"
isn't. And they offer no detail on how the fairness of the service is
currently affected, i.e. witch are today's "acts of God" and "governmental
actions"?

I guess we must be as careful with google as we are when we watch news on tv
or read a newspaper.

Cheers,
Juan Vuletich
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Subject: Re: [Off Topic] Google and fair access to information


I'm guessing you don't trust Yahoo, AOL or MSN either right? Google is
fighting a supoena from the US government for search engines records.
The fact that Yahoo, AOL and MSN have already complied is footnote is
some news stories, and not even mentioned in most. Where's the outcry
against them? How many other supoenas have they decided to not fight?
Why are more people worried about internet freedom in China than they
are outside of it?

IMO, Google made a choice in a no-win situation. If they did not agree
to censorship, Google would still be blocked. Now it is not, and the
Chinese people are getting more info than they did before.

On 2/3/06, Juan Vuletich <jmvsqueak at uolsinectis.com.ar> wrote:
> Hi Folks
>
> I apologize for being so off topic, but I hope this is important for you.
>
> Please check http://images.google.com/images?q=tiananmen+square and 
> compare
> with http://images.google.cn/images?q=tiananmen+square .
>
> I am worried. I thought we could trust google.
>
> Regards,
> Juan Vuletich
>
>
>


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