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> Also if google starts ranking such pages up they may expose themselves to class action lawsuits as users could ask for a refund for the power, hardware and te
by feanaro 4y ago
> Also if google starts ranking such pages up they may expose themselves to class action lawsuits as users could ask for a refund for the power, hardware and telecom bills incurred in being lead to load them?
Sorry, but this is completely insane. Search engines should most certainly and definitely not ever be liable for linking to original sources for such a stupid reason. This American pro-litigious attitude has to stop.
- meltedcapacitor 4y agoSure, it's tongue in cheek, but there is a tragedy of the commons in there: whatever massive waste devs and their employers inflict on society goes unpunished because there is no incentive to change that behaviour. Was suggesting some activist subvert computer misuse laws to fix this. Primary legislation or big tech using its weight would do as well. In the physical world one can't dump a rusty aircraft carrier on someone else's lawn and get away with it. Should be the same in tech.
- feanaro 4y ago> In the physical world one can't dump a rusty aircraft carrier on someone else's lawn and get away with it. Should be the same in tech. Google's search results are most definitely not your lawn, nor are heavy websites very much alike to rusty aircraft carriers. Or however this analogy is supposed to work anyway.
- foota 4y agoAmericans aren't the ones forcing crazy things on internet companies these days.
- piva00 4y agoNo, they are the ones allowing companies become such behemoths that other sovereign governments have to step in and rule over to keep some kind of data privacy for their citizens.