On Sun, 30 Nov 2008 13:38:37 +0000, Roy Schestowitz wrote:
> 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/
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").
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