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> You want to impose liability on Google and Bing because they index the whole internet and the internet has bad stuff on it? Yes. If you found some, i don't
by ebcode 10y ago
> You want to impose liability on Google and Bing because they index the whole internet and the internet has bad stuff on it?
Yes. If you found some, i don't know, child pornography, say, lying in the street, then went around showing it to people saying, "hey, look what I found", that would be considered illegal/repugnant/stupid, right? Why should that same action analogized to the digital domain be any less illegal/repugnant/stupid? I don't think it is.
- michaelmrose 10y agoAnalogies are often useful tools to explicate things by relating them to already understood concepts but utterly useless to make useful proofs or arguments because it oversimplifies to the point of uselessness and misses the ways things differ. These arguments via analogy are so worthless, so without substance that it is usually a massive waste of time to try to explain to the originator the ways in which the analogy differs from reality so I will simply ask you to come back with an argument based on reality instead.