re: #59 BishopX

Not a fan of child porn, but what google, yahoo and microsoft did here will end up haunting them. About a year ago Cameron demanded that these companies take action or face legislation forcing them to do this. What they built is response was a system to censor their search results.

Now that they’ve announced that they have this nifty capability, every other country which wants things removed from their search results will come calling with this press release in hand.

This will make it that much harder to resit say china’s effort to remove all mention of Tianamen square.

I’d much rather google went after the actual purveyors of this stuff rather than inventing a methodology to filter the internet at in response to government pressure.

Repeat after me: Google is not a law enforcement agency.

They have no more power to “[go] after the actual purveyors of this stuff” than you or I do.

They, as a private party, are not constrained by the First Amendment; however, money talks, so if you don’t like what they are doing, don’t patronize them or do things that put money in their pocket.

Pretty simple logic to me.