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Started by Shibboleet The Annihilator, January 12, 2010, 11:22:34 PM

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Jasper

#1
January 13, 2010, 01:37:36 AM
-1 Distrust of Google.

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The Johnny

#2
January 13, 2010, 01:40:39 AM

I dont know...

Maybe if the fish got out of the water that they stood idly by these actions against "activists", the ensuing bad rap they would get would hurt their business/media image ?
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#3
January 13, 2010, 02:44:02 AM
Quote from: JohNyx on January 13, 2010, 01:40:39 AM

I dont know...

Maybe if the fish got out of the water that they stood idly by these actions against "activists", the ensuing bad rap they would get would hurt their business/media image ?
More than Yahoo or Microsoft?

Link to the blog announcement.

I applaud this decision. It'd be easy to be cynical about this if that's where you're coming from, but it'd tough to argue that they don't stand to lose more money by taking this principled approach.

The Johnny

#4
January 13, 2010, 02:53:52 AM
Quote from: FP on January 13, 2010, 02:44:02 AM
Quote from: JohNyx on January 13, 2010, 01:40:39 AM

I dont know...

Maybe if the fish got out of the water that they stood idly by these actions against "activists", the ensuing bad rap they would get would hurt their business/media image ?
More than Yahoo or Microsoft?

Link to the blog announcement.

I applaud this decision. It'd be easy to be cynical about this if that's where you're coming from, but it'd tough to argue that they don't stand to lose more money by taking this principled approach.

The blog post is just showing me their discourse, not necesarily their true intentions.

But you are right in the sense that they would lose money by doing this; China is a huge market after all.
<<My image in some places, is of a monster of some kind who wants to pull a string and manipulate people. Nothing could be further from the truth. People are manipulated; I just want them to be manipulated more effectively.>>

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Jasper

#5
January 13, 2010, 03:00:38 AM
Whenever a corporation intentionally does something that will hurt their profits, it must be allowable that the corporation has made an ethical decision.

Ethics in corporations is becoming more fashionable lately.

Dysfunctional Cunt

#6
January 13, 2010, 02:57:22 PM
Quote from: Felix on January 13, 2010, 03:00:38 AM
Whenever a corporation intentionally does something that will hurt their profits, it must be allowable that the corporation has made an ethical decision.

Ethics in corporations is becoming more fashionable lately the new black.

:lulz:

Golden Applesauce

#7
January 13, 2010, 04:39:32 PM
Apparently, the announcement itself is being censored in China (albeit not completely.)

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/14/world/asia/14beijing.html?hp
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January 13, 2010, 06:51:18 PM

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#9
January 13, 2010, 07:26:22 PM
Q: How regularly do you hire 8th graders?
A: We have hired a number of FORMER 8th graders.

P3nT4gR4m

#10
January 13, 2010, 11:01:59 PM
Other thread is populararer  :p

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Shibboleet The Annihilator

#11
January 15, 2010, 04:59:49 AM
That's what I get for posting the topic in the related forum.

Jasper

#12
January 15, 2010, 05:00:44 AM
Yeah, maybe the other thread should be appended to this one. 

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#13
January 15, 2010, 09:27:14 AM
That'd be like Poland annexing Germany  :argh!:

I'm up to my arse in Brexit Numpties, but I want more.  Target-rich environments are the new sexy.
Not actually a meat product.
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Awful and Bent Behemothic Results of Last Night's Painful Squat.
High Altitude Haggis-Filled Sex Bucket From Beyond Time and Space.
Internet Monkey Person of Filthy and Immoral Pygmy-Porn Wart Contagion
Octomom Auxillary Heat Exchanger Repairman
walking the fine line line between genius and batshit fucking crazy

"computation is a pattern in the spacetime arrangement of particles, and it's not the particles but the pattern that really matters! Matter doesn't matter." -- Max Tegmark

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#14
January 15, 2010, 01:11:15 PM
Quote from: Slanket the Destroyer on January 15, 2010, 04:59:49 AM
That's what I get for posting the topic in the related forum.

Awww, I just thought it was more about politics (censorship) than technology (only because it's about Google and the Internet).

And, I didn't check, and fully admit that my thread is repost.

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