[governance] Google to Censor Blogposts

[Suresh Ramasubramanian]

Not here. They don't censor specific content and only limit categories of 
content. It still doesn't stop people from uploading it but they do have a 
policy basis for taking down any objectionable content going forward. I 
guess this removes the subjectivity and need for editorial control as to 
whether a nude picture was solicited or taken by a voyeur with a long lens 
through an open bedroom window.



On February 25, 2015 8:07:42 AM Barry Shein <bzs at world.std.com> wrote:

>
> From: Suresh Ramasubramanian <suresh at hserus.net>
> >Given that they are the ones stuck with policing all the nude content and s=
> >eparating the drunk nude selfie bloggers from the upskirt voyeurs / revenge=
> > porn site operators / child abuse perpetrators from the scholarly discussa=
> >nts of the precise way to achieve the flexibility necessary to perform sex =
> >acts described in the kamasutra ...=20
> >
> >I can understand their blanket ban, though I don't necessarily condone it.
>
> Whatever happened to the theory that if you act as the censor then you
> can be held responsible for the content (e.g., failure to perform
> liability when some kid gets porn this way anyhow)?
>
> Did that have no legal basis? Is there any case trail?
>
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