<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 12:36 AM, Daniel Kalchev <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:daniel@digsys.bg" target="_blank">daniel@digsys.bg</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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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></div></blockquote><div><br>I agree. But let us not forget that some religions are known to everyone worldwide. Islam, Christianity, Jewish, Buddhism are some of the very well known religions regardless of who follows what religion. When web content tend to abuse a certain religion/nation/region/..., there must be a policy in-hand to re-stabilize things. If the Youtube video was brought down in the first place, we might have not had this discussion in the first place since there would have nothing to discuss.<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></div></blockquote><div><br>+1<br> <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div text="#000000" bgcolor="#FFFFFF">
In the end, it seems that Google indeed restricted access to that
particular video in certain countries.</div></blockquote><div><br>Yes, upon their request.<br> <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div text="#000000" bgcolor="#FFFFFF">
This costs them business.
Like any enterprise they need to balance their business interests.</div></blockquote><div><br>While I agree this is how the business world runs, it should not be at the cost of citizens raging over insulting content. But this - I admit - is the perfect world we all seek for.<br>
<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div text="#000000" bgcolor="#FFFFFF">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?</div></blockquote><div><br>Well, the discussion was about a well known religion, while I agree that John Doe is someone I do not know. These are two different issues IMO.<br>
<br>Thus, I would NEVER post anything that could rage followers of a religion or a certain community, and if I did that unintentionally, I would definitely remove it.<br><br>As for John Doe... I have never created my own video, so I really do not know what my answer would be. If I was in the business of creating videos of hilarious nature, I might have had my thinking in a different direction :-)<br>
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I live in Bulgaria.</div></blockquote><div><br>Of course you do, we are on the Root LGR VIP Working Group :-)<br> <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div text="#000000" bgcolor="#FFFFFF">I know the most typical answer, "it was old
times, barbarian tribes, nobody knows now etc, so a different
religion".</div></blockquote><div><br>Not exactly. As I stated in my earlier e-mail, historians can interpret history from the way they see things. Look at the Youtube video <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mtqJhvSydMU&feature=related">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mtqJhvSydMU&feature=related</a> for a different view that insults no one.<br>
</div>Fahd<br></div>