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> On Sun, 30 Nov 2008 13:38:37 +0000, Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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>> Economic Growth, Censorship, and Search Engines
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>> | "Popular" web pages tend to appear higher in search results. Censoring
>> a page | distorts this popularity contest and can change the order of
>> even unrelated | results. As more pages are blocked, the censored view
>> of the web becomes | increasingly distorted. As an aside, Ed notes that
>> blocking a page removes | more than just the offending material. If
>> censors block Ed's site due to an | off-hand comment on Falun Gong, he
>> also loses any influence he has on | information security.
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>> http://www.freedom-to-tinker.com/
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> Does anyone here actually believe that censors care about side effects? I
> submit that censors only care about their fiefdoms and their power trips.
> One only has to look at the HRCs in Canada to see this as well as the
> falliciously named "United Nations Human Rights Council" which is led by
> countries with some of the worst human rights abuses on record and
> recently passed a resolution that would ban the "defamation of
> Islam" (where defamation has be redifined to mean "saying anything that
> might offend Islamists, whether true or not").
I guess that leaves the United States out of the UN... again.
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