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There is a difference between having a set of rules and doing ad hoc moderation.
by vadfa 5y ago
There is a difference between having a set of rules and doing ad hoc moderation.
- shadowgovt 5y agoThe set of rules includes "results that are illegal to divulge in a jurisdiction will not be shown."
- shkkmo 5y agoSince Google is doing this voluntarily, many of the blocked results were legal to divulge but Google is choosing not to, which does make it ad hoc.
- axutio 5y agoThis just becomes a question of pragmatism at that point - Google lacks the capacity to determine which of the blocked results are legal versus are not without incurring cost, so the most realistic approach is to recognize that a majority of results from that domain are illegal and block the domain. This is just the simplest way to enforce a particular rule in a particular case that can't otherwise be cheaply codified programatically.
- shkkmo 5y agoYet Google doesn't generally block most content that is illegal in one jurisdiction in all others where it is not illegal. If Google is deciding to do that just with TPB, then that is indeed an adhoc decision.
- 8note 5y agoSo writing a rule "don't show results from domains on list X" makes it ad hoc ad not a rule? I don't think there's sombody manually removing each result from search queries by hand. That wouldnt meet latency constraints