On 1/19/07, George Herbert george.herbert@gmail.com wrote:
On 1/19/07, Anthony wikilegal@inbox.org wrote:
[...] But I don't even remember what search engine I used before Google. I think it was Yahoo. Do Wikipedia pages rank high in Yahoo? Ah, Yahoo, I remember when *that* used to be the corporation that everyone loved and praised. Now they're helping the Chinese put people in jail. I wonder how long before Google does that little bit of evil. AFAIK they haven't actively helped the government put people in jail...yet.
If you fault Google for their policy, and Yahoo for theirs, that's fine... but for all of our sakes, don't just go around harshing on them on the Wikipedia foundation list. If you are going to bring up the question, bring it up in the context of what's really wrong here (nobody understands the "right" thing to do about it) and how WP can participate in fixing that (figuring out the right thing).
Actually I wasn't faulting Google for their policy at all. I was faulting Yahoo for theirs, namely for divulging confidential information knowing full well that information was going to put an innocent person in jail. As I said, I'm not aware of Google actually doing that yet.
This is not the place for merely bagging on the corporations. It's one of many places where real serious discussions could start on what to do next.
Well, this isn't the place for praising corporations either, then.
Anthony