Posted by: Fester

Well hello again folks. I’m just getting back from picking up my nads from laughing so hard about this whole ‘Google is not cooperating with the government’ scam.

I’ve had many a critic say “Hey, where’s your proof they’re cooperating?” (BTW: I’m not saying they’re cooperating - I’m saying they probably have already given the guv EVERYTHING, before all this subpoena stuff.)

Well, OK, I can’t prove they’ve been coooperating with our government, but they do cooperate with governments, and their stance sounds very weak to me…

“While removing search results (is) inconsistent with Google’s mission… providing no information — or a heavily degraded user experience that amounts to no information — is more inconsistent with our mission.”
- Google senior policy counsel Andrew McLaughlin.

So, do you bend, or don’t you?

Here’s yer friggin proof:

From ABC News:

Saying that providing some information is better than providing no information, Google Inc. today defended its decision to cooperate with China’s demand to censor some Web search results.

The company agreed to block some sites that cover human rights, Tibet and other topics Beijing doesn’t want the citizens of this communist nation to research.

Reporters Without Borders, a media watchdog group, slammed Google — whose corporate motto is “Don’t Be Evil” — as hypocritical.

“When a search engine collaborates with the government like this, it makes it much easier for the Chinese government to control what is being said on the Internet,” said Julien Pain, head of the group’s Internet desk.

Neat, huh?

Question:
If Google is based in the USA, but the Canadian government asks for their data, do the laws up there have more weight than those down here in the good ‘ol south? - If so, and Google dumps their load, then .ca sends all the data down here cause like, we’re on high alert, eh! - and we always get what we want from them wimps.

Another question:
What if China demands all their data - and they refuse… is that the start of WWIII? (I don’t think they’re wimpy.)

Another sillier question (because I had to ask in the first place):
Is Google really above the law? Blatant copyright infringement, ignoring subpoenas, what’s next???? Imprisoning me for saying all this….???

Wooops…. maybe my next post will be from Sing-Sing… or Ling-Ling…

Fester, out.

This entry was posted on Thursday, January 26th, 2006 at 12:33 am and is filed under Google the Good, Google the Bad, Google the Ugly, Google Rules.