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Regarding "right to know" and "right to say," the following was
posted on a <a
href="http://www.coactivate.org/projects/campaign-for.nyc/transparent-search">Transparent
Search</a> wiki page we host.
<blockquote>"Such placements need to be carefully reviewed by
fairness rules of what might be called "search journalism." Here
in the U.S. the First Amendment - "Congress shall make no law ...
abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press..." - poses an
apparent block to any regulation. <br>
<br>
"But it might be argued that there are parallels between the
impact of technology on the interpretation of the First Amendment,
perhaps with parallels drawn with the Second Amendment. Americans
are all to familiar with a decades long controversy about that
Amendment's guaranteeing a citizen's right to bare arms: Did the
Founding Fathers intend that citizens be allowed to own and use
powerful automatic weapons? The corresponding First Amendment
question might be: Was big data, big money, and search imagined by
the Founding Fathers?" <br>
<br>
"So for the immediate future, regulation of search journalism is
unlikely. And with the creation of a transparent "search.nyc"
vital to our city's effective operation, a trusted entity must be
identified to oversee its development."</blockquote>
Best,<br>
<br>
Tom Lowenhaupt<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 1/6/2013 12:46 PM, michael gurstein
wrote:<br>
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style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Perhaps
before trolling on you might want to actually read the
blogpost of which this was a "teaser"… <a
moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://wp.me/pJQl5-ab">http://wp.me/pJQl5-ab</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span
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style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext">
Suresh Ramasubramanian [<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="mailto:suresh@hserus.net">mailto:suresh@hserus.net</a>] <br>
<b>Sent:</b> Sunday, January 06, 2013 8:52 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:governance@lists.igcaucus.org">governance@lists.igcaucus.org</a>; michael
gurstein<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [governance] FW: [IP] Google's
Lawyers Work Behind the Scenes to Carry the Day -
NYTimes.com<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">So do you get all your news from just <a
moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://news.google.com">news.google.com</a>
and other google search results, instead of Facebook shares,
Riaz gleefully posting every article he sees about google
being investigated for, say, giggling in church?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">And did Riaz find this news item anywhere
other than google search?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">And does this reality distortion field
google is supposed to have actually hide any search results
from you that are negative to it? Like search for "google
FTC" and you get the EU action, statements from Microsoft
slamming the decision etc.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">And the last link on page 1 of the search
results showing just where google got spanked by the FTC. <a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.tnr.com/blog/plank/111650/why-does-everyone-think-google-beat-the-ftc">http://www.tnr.com/blog/plank/111650/why-does-everyone-think-google-beat-the-ftc#</a> is
worth a read as a kind f counterpoint to all the commentary
about how google got a get out of jail card because of
intensive lobbying.<br>
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Can we please<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">1. Have a reality check here<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">2. Go back to discussing Internet
governance <o:p></o:p></p>
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--srs (iPad)<o:p></o:p></p>
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On 06-Jan-2013, at 22:00, "michael gurstein" <<a
moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:gurstein@gmail.com">gurstein@gmail.com</a>>
wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Thanks
Riaz (and sorry for the really awkward phrasing… </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">To
put that in English…</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">I'm
wondering whether it wouldn't be better to
"investigate" Google for possible "freedom of thought"
violations rather than issues concerning "freedom of
speech"… Google has the potential for much more
serious impacts on our capacity to know (or not know)
certain things, than on what we can say or not say…</span></i><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span
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