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961.
by gress 12y ago
What justifies giving the searchers an advantage that the victims don't have?
962.
by gress 12y ago
What have these straw men got to do with anything other than that you don't like the idea of Google having any responsibility for the negative consequences of their service?
963.
by gress 12y ago
So you were wrong about the gun analogy and are ignoring the point that the operators are responsible for what Google does.
964.
by gress 12y ago
You don't seem to understand that Google is a company run by people who are part of a society. Not some kind of naturally occurring algorithm.
965.
by gress 12y ago
True. I was mostly responding to the tone of the original comment. By all means encourage powerful sites to deprecate support for poor implementations as a way of encouraging progress.
966.
by gress 12y ago
No - you don't blame the gun. You blame the operator. That is exactly what is happening in this case.
967.
by gress 12y ago
Defamation is a well established cause for legally compelling people to change the way they represent others.
968.
by gress 12y ago
I am opposed to the idea that because something is a machine process, the people who operate that machine should not be held responsible for any harm it does.
969.
by gress 12y ago
I know exactly how a search engine works, so your explanation is irrelevant. I also know that Google is a system operated by humans who are responsible for its effects. If you operate a machine and it harms people, you are responsible. T
970.
by gress 12y ago
Google is just a search algorithm in the same way that a gun is just a convenient way to move pieces of lead around.
971.
by gress 12y ago
Google is not a public institution.
972.
by gress 12y ago
Do you seriously believe that Google is somehow unbiased?
973.
by gress 12y ago
> But if this law becomes widespread and sets a very strong precedent, then people will automatically tend to believe anything that they read about online. How is this true?
974.
by gress 12y ago
Presumably you think he should just suffer so that Google can make more profit without inconvenience.
975.
by gress 12y ago
Why would you ask that?
976.
by gress 12y ago
Seems like a great precedent. Google spiders the web and creates profiles about people, and they should be held responsible for the consequences.
977.
by gress 12y ago
Algolia looks pretty scrappy to me.
978.
by gress 12y ago
Sacrificing a business and the livelihoods of it's employees is a steep price to pay for getting some bugs fixed.
979.
by gress 12y ago
I know of British Airways executives who flew from London to New York on Concorde only to attend meetings from which they returned again the same day without having left the airport.
980.
by gress 12y ago
I didn't acknowledge that. Renting the data doesn't mean third parties see it - since there would be no way for it to be 'returned'. Instead a program is executed on their behalf.
981.
by gress 12y ago
Luckily the justice department protected competition in ebooks so this will take care of itself... Oh.. wait.
982.
by gress 12y ago
In a weird twist, that cynic would be superficial.
983.
by gress 12y ago
In the same way that Netflix did?
984.
by gress 12y ago
That is a nice idea, but what makes you think it's true?
985.
by gress 12y ago
This is actually a problem with capitalism in general. Integrity costs money. It's the tragedy of the commons writ large.
986.
by gress 12y ago
No media behaves anything like what you are calling for. Yes, this would be ideal, but it is so meaningless to call for it in the context of a single article that it is effectively a straw man. What we currently live with is media either p
987.
by gress 12y ago
The point is that Apple's poor behavior barely registers on the scale by comparison to Samsung's, so the truth is not balanced. That is why the article doesn't bother to mention these things. You would like to make the clai
988.
by gress 12y ago
I see you leave out the places where Motorola prevailed against Apple.
989.
by gress 12y ago
It can't. It is processed on the advertisers behalf by Google. If Google allowed it to actually be downloads, their competitors would be able to use it, so the processing is done within Google. That doesn't make it any less of a
990.
by gress 12y ago
So you support Samsung because you sided with Microsoft in some past battle, and you hold a grudge. At least you're honest.

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