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EU citizens will have the search results censored but the rest of the world will not, nor will any European who is mildly tech savvy. How is this not useless wh
by happyscrappy 12y ago
EU citizens will have the search results censored but the rest of the world will not, nor will any European who is mildly tech savvy. How is this not useless whack-a-mole?
- jontro 12y agoAs the documents states: "Fewer than 5% of European users use google.com, and we think travelers are a significant portion of those." So this affects pretty much all europeans.
- happyscrappy 12y agoDo you believe that most Europeans won't know that their search results are being censored? Or that they won't care?
- gcp 12y agoYes?
- heinrich5991 12y agoOr maybe that they agree with the intentions of that law.
- happyscrappy 12y agoMy point is that even if you agree with the intentions of the law it will not prevent Europeans from finding the truth if they want it.
- kuschku 12y agoBut that's not what the law aims for either. It's just supposed to make finding those results harder, so that you don't accidentally stumble upon them, but have to actually search for them.
- DannyBee 12y ago??? It's exactly the opposite If you actually search for them, you get nothing. If you stumble around, you may find them.
- walshemj 12y agoI certainly don't its a "pious" law written by people with zero grasp of reality - the same ones that gave us the cookie law.
- DanBC 12y agoSo what if it's useless whack-a-mole? It's compliant with an EU ruling. It'll keep a few people happy where those people used to think they were the subjects of harassment before. That will stop those people using the police for this stuff. (Front line police in England spend maybe half their time dealing with online harassment, bullying, threats, trolling, etc).