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

[Guru गुरु]

On 01/06/2013 10:22 PM, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
> So do you get all your news from just news.google.com 
> <http://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.

Does 'personalised search' (without your having asked for, it or having 
any role in such pesonalisation) not in a sense 'reality distortion' 
....by offering different people different views on the same keyword search.

See attached aticle (the web link is not available anymore)

Guru
>
> 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# 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 
> <mailto: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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