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Google isn’t able to censor the Internet. They could remove all links to anything Microsoft, MS would still be on the Internet. If you truly believe that delis
by Eric_WVGG 4y ago
Google isn’t able to censor the Internet. They could remove all links to anything Microsoft, MS would still be on the Internet.
If you truly believe that delisting someone is “censoring the Internet” then they’re also censoring me when they don’t list my homepage on queries for “very cool dudes.”
- hiatus 4y agoTake it a step further. If your DNS is seized, your site is still accessible as it would still be on the internet. It's pretty similar to deleting a link to your site as only previous users with the IP could access it, much the same like users navigating directly to microsoft.com if Google removed all links in search. Is DNS seizure censorship? I'm not equating the two, but I want to understand your view that deleting or restricting information is not censorship.
- Eric_WVGG 4y agoI would say yes, but it sort of depends on how. If it was the gov't directing a registrar to seize a domain name, that's pretty clearly a violation of the first amendment. If a registrar seized a domain name, that wouldn't be a first amendment per se, but it would probably be a breach of contract and should be illegal one way or another. And then there's some grey areas with copyright that I think have been hammered out in courts… IANAL