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That "forced censorship" isn't about a right to be forgotten or any reasonable definition of freedom of expression. It's about a company violating IP rights. T
by am1988 9y ago
That "forced censorship" isn't about a right to be forgotten or any reasonable definition of freedom of expression. It's about a company violating IP rights.
The US government puts the same pressure on Google. Worse actually, because the DCMA expects it to be done without a court order (which has lead to rampant abuse on sites like youtube).
- wyager 9y agoOf course, I should have figured that our censorship was for good reasons, but not Chinese censorship. After all, copyright interests are clearly worth censoring for, but whatever excuse the Chinese government used (State interests?) aren't.
- am1988 9y agoI don't agree with a lot of the censorship for copyright eihter (nintendo and lets play videos is one such example). You seriously can't see the rather important moral difference between "take down this site selling copies of my stuff as their own" vs "take down this criticism of the government massacring citizens"?
- wyager 9y agoThe recent Canadian and European takedown cases covered here on HN weren't about "stuff I own", they were about "inconvenient information I want to remove from public view". Still covered under copyright law.