Quote:robkelk wrote:Yes, those sorts of things I did notice. It does appear it's going to start becoming a case of "if you're an important part of the internet, you may have to start applying things internationally when told you have to keep people from finding certain things."Quote:JFerio wrote:That ship has already sailed. (link is to an Irish story about a German case.) They don't have a choice in the matter...
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I do see the "slippery slope" problem, though, because some countries might try to drive a wedge into this hole to get other stuff completely off the internet (or at least off Google results) that their own country firewalls have proved to be somewhat porous against. This is something Google doesn't want to have happen, any other considerations aside, because the size of the resulting blacklist would be staggering.
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Again, slippery slope territory (who's to say a place with extreme views won't start abusing it to sanitize the internet for their comfort?), but part of it will be that we have to find the balance.
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