[LINK] Conroy vs Google

[Jan Whitaker]

At 10:24 AM 1/04/2010, David Vaile wrote:
> > Most people would want at least some sites taken out even if they don't
> > know how.
>
>Pretend that you know how. If there are a trillion items on the open web,
>with 1-10 billion or more changing every month, how do you propose to detect
>and classify a significant enough number (assuming you want this to be
>effective, and not merely a moral gesture?)
>
>Viability aside, it is true that some people think some sites should be
>taken down. This occurs at present, for very limited and clearly
>demonstrated as harmful sites.

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This makes one wonder if the super-conservatives will be trawling the 
net looking for these baddies amongst the multi-billion pages. 
Otherwise, how will this actually work? And does that make these 'do 
gooders' now among the 'bad people'? And will they go to hell or be 
'damaged for life' as Conroy said on the RN interview?

Jan



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