<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;"><br><br><div><div><div><div><p> Walu and all, before this topic goes stale, check this link:</p><p><br></p><p><a href="http://unwin.wordpress.com/2010/04/23/google-tracking/">http://unwin.wordpress.com/2010/04/23/google-tracking/</a></p><p><br></p><p>L</p></div></div></div></div><br><br>--- On <b>Fri, 4/23/10, McTim <i><dogwallah@gmail.com></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><br>From: McTim <dogwallah@gmail.com><br>Subject: Re: [kictanet] Google Statistics on Government Censorship Requests<br>To: mleonardo@yahoo.com<br>Cc: "KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions" <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke><br>Date: Friday, April 23, 2010, 2:52 PM<br><br><div class="plainMail">Walu, see my reax in lower case ;-)<br><br>On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 12:34 PM, Walubengo J
<<a ymailto="mailto:jwalu@yahoo.com" href="/mc/compose?to=jwalu@yahoo.com">jwalu@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:<br>><br>> McTim - my reaction in caps (though am not shouting ;-) on some of your comments<br><br><snip><br><br><br>><br>> 2. Is this actually the case? If Google removes content, then it's not "blocked" per country is it, it's removed for all.<br>> MUCHERU COULD CLARIFY. BUT BASICALLY I DO NOT THINK GOOGLE REMOVES CONTENT "GLOBALLY"<br><br><br>Of course they do, if it's a violation of their AUP in one country,<br>its a violation in another.<br><br>While possible, it's fiendishly difficult to update algorithms on an<br>hourly basis to serve different content and search results to<br>different IP ranges.<br><br><br> BECAUSE WHAT IS ILLEGAL IN ONE COUNTRY IS NOT NECESSARILY SO IN THE<br>OTHER - THINK HITLER-RELATED CONTENT; THAT'S LARGELY A BIG NO IN<br>GERMANY BUT ELSEWHERE ITS NOT A BIG DEAL.<br><br>That's nearly a
Godwin!<br><br>><br><snip><br><br>> 4.I can't parse this one, sorry.<br>> NO PROBLEM - UPDATE YOUR COMPILER ;-) NWAY, I THINK WE NEED TO THINK ABOUT THE IMPLICATIONS OF AN OMNIPRESENT TECHNOLOGY SUCH AS GOOGLE. A TIME IS COMING WHEN MUCHERU AND Co (GOOGLE) WILL CONTROL WHAT YOU READ, SEE AND HEAR. I CAN ONLY ENVY THEIR POSITION.<br><br>Only if you choose to use Google services.<br><br>--<br>Cheers,<br><br>McTim<br>"A name indicates what we seek. An address indicates where it is. A<br>route indicates how we get there." Jon Postel<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>kictanet mailing list<br><a ymailto="mailto:kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke" href="/mc/compose?to=kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke">kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke</a><br><a href="http://lists.kictanet.or.ke/mailman/listinfo/kictanet" target="_blank">http://lists.kictanet.or.ke/mailman/listinfo/kictanet</a><br><br>This message was sent to: <a
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