[governance] FW: [IP] Google's Lawyers Work Behind the Scenes to Carry the Day - NYTimes.com

[Suresh Ramasubramanian]

I did. I still don't see just where this is related to igov. Did they rename this Googlebash caucus when I was asleep? 

--srs (htc one x)


----- Reply message -----
From: "michael gurstein" <gurstein at gmail.com>
To: "'Suresh Ramasubramanian'" <suresh at hserus.net>, <governance at lists.igcaucus.org>
Subject: [governance] FW: [IP] Google's Lawyers Work Behind the Scenes to Carry the Day - NYTimes.com
Date: Sun, Jan 6, 2013 11:16 PM


Perhaps before trolling on you might want to actually read the blogpost of which this was a "teaser"… http://wp.me/pJQl5-ab

 

M

 

From: Suresh Ramasubramanian [mailto:suresh at hserus.net] 
Sent: Sunday, January 06, 2013 8:52 AM
To: governance at lists.igcaucus.org; michael gurstein
Subject: Re: [governance] FW: [IP] Google's Lawyers Work Behind the Scenes to Carry the Day - NYTimes.com

 

So do you get all your news from just news.google.com 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?

 

And did Riaz find this news item anywhere other than google search?

 

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.

 

And the last link on page 1 of the search results showing just where google got spanked by the FTC.  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>  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.

Can we please

 

1. Have a reality check here

2. Go back to discussing Internet governance 


--srs (iPad)


On 06-Jan-2013, at 22:00, "michael gurstein" <gurstein at gmail.com> wrote:

Thanks Riaz (and sorry for the really awkward phrasing… 

 

To put that in English…

 

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…

 

M

 

 

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