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On 18.09.12 17:59, Fahd A. Batayneh wrote:
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 11:34 PM, Daniel
Kalchev <span dir="ltr"><<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:daniel@digsys.bg" target="_blank">daniel@digsys.bg</a>></span>
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I believe Google are just trying to save their business. You
can't blame them about this stance.<br>
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Saving their business must not be at the cost of any religion
or social norm. More, it must not be at the cost of mocking
religious figures who changed humanity with their message and
beliefs.<br>
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Imagine, that daily Google offends the religious beliefs of people
they have never, ever heard of. Also imagine, that the beliefs of
those who rule Google will likely not match yours or mine.<br>
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We can claim anything we wish, but as long as we rely on Google for
(whatever), we will be frustrated with their decisions, when they do
not match ours.<br>
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In the end, it seems that Google indeed restricted access to that
particular video in certain countries. This costs them business.
Like any enterprise they need to balance their business interests.<br>
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Would you accept anyone to "save their business" at the cost
of depriving you of something that is owned by you?<br>
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This happens all the day. Every day. I do not know about you, but I
have learned to live with this reality and turn it the way I see
fit. When someone tries to deprive me of something I believe is
mine, I fight back -- one way or another.<br>
But I also understand, that from time to time my decisions and
actions might be considered the same way by someone else.<br>
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something, that someone who doesn't agree with you claims is
offensive to them. Should Google remove it? Why?</div>
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I would not wait for Google to remove, I will do it myself.
Even better, I would not get myself into such a position by
posting content that could offend someone.<br>
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Maybe I wasn't clear. You post something. It offends John Doe. He
doesn't know about you. You don't know about him. He knows Google
and posts there. You know Google, you see the posting and complain.
Google won't intervene. If you are not convinced John Doe is right,
would you remove your very own posting? Why?<br>
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<div text="#000000" bgcolor="#FFFFFF">I happen to live in a
country, that was subject to mass extinction for half a
millennium because of that same religion.</div>
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Do you mean the Persian empire? Or Andalus (Spain under the
Arab rule)?<br>
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I live in Bulgaria. I know the most typical answer, "it was old
times, barbarian tribes, nobody knows now etc, so a different
religion". Noticeable part of this country's population still
suffers. I have my opinion on this and do not insist it be accepted
by everyone. I also have no problem with anyone's religion --- as
long as they stay out of my door. <br>
About history interpretation: I also lived trough the so called
"communist regime" and the today's "democracy" -- this let me
observe enough interpretations of history of all kinds -- most of
them, pathetic at best.<br>
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None of this has anything to do with the situation at hand, however.
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Daniel<br>
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