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Is it legally a good idea for Google to go and blacklist individual sites?
by vadfa 5y ago
Is it legally a good idea for Google to go and blacklist individual sites?
- GhettoComputers 5y agoChild porn is the extreme. www.chillingeffects.org is the other.
- briffle 5y agoExactly, change the word blacklist to censor, and then it seems wrong.
- labster 5y agoChange the flag button on this post to censor and I bet people wouldn’t click it. But people want some level of censorship, so long as they convince themselves they’re not against free speech.
- SrslyJosh 5y agoBlacklisting by a private entity is not censorship. It's even sillier when you consider that what's being removed are copies and the original content is still there.
- SrslyJosh 5y agoBut that's not censorship. Google is not a government, and no one's speech is being suppressed by filtering out literal copies of something and leaving the original.
- snerbles 5y agoCensorship can be conducted by private or public entities. https://www.aclu.org/other/what-censorship https://www.aclu.org/other/what-censorship
- kevin_thibedeau 5y agoThey killed off the Wikipedia clones that way. It's funny that they haven't come back even though the SO clones do the exact same thing.
- skinkestek 5y agoI guess Wikipedia kind of got their rampant deletionism under control while Stack Exchange did not?
- SrslyJosh 5y agoWikipedia clones probably got enough traffic to show up on someone's dashboard/report. SO clones are probably a small fraction of all traffic, even though they seem to show up in a large percentage of the searches we perform.