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Friday, February 23, 2007

The Monolith

Google, Inc. is possibly the most fascinating company on the planet. In an information age, they are the source of more information than any other company - and as information shapes people's views, being able to control that information is of utmost importance. Google also has the best and worst of a lot of worlds... it allows every voice to be heard; but that includes the crazies, the crackpots, the bigots, etc. It also ranks - using complex algorithms - the most 'important' views on any given subject... whether or not they happen to be factually correct.

Anyway, I've always found it interesting. They're a scarily powerful company.

Meanwhile, in other news, Google has basically gotten a ruling that allows Orthomom to defend herself if she so chooses... and she so chooses. All in all, not bad - it does mean that assuming Orthomom can defend herself (which it seems clear she can with ease) Google will not be releasing her information.

Adar is a good month, isn't it? :)

5 comments:

  1. Google has basically gotten a ruling that allows Orthomom to defend herself...

    Not quite ezzie. Greenbaum is the one who got the rule requiring Orthomom to appear in court and defend herself. Google should have stood up to the charge and had the case dismissed. I see no reason why this had to be passed on to OM- she's an individual blogger with not a fraction of Google's legal or corporate influence. This will be a real hassle now for her to defend (considering that she'll have to 'appear' as Jane Doe), when Google could have taken care of it with little effort.

    ...if she so chooses... and she so chooses.
    OM has no choice here. If she ignores the court date, the judge will rule by default for the petitioner (Greenbaum) and Google has already agreed to hand over OM's info.

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  2. The fact of the matter is, this suit is against OM and not Google. Greenbaum just needs Google to get to her. I think it is horrible that they would even consider revealing any information and not fighting this on its merits.

    Perhaps soon enough, we will see every politician suing a blogger for some sort of comment, if this is not taken care of quickly.

    This Greenbaum woman is just unbelievable. Is this the first time someone has hurt her precious feelings? I am sooooooo sure she is a perfect saint that nothing has anything slipped through HER lips. And afterall, OM isen't the one that even said the comments.

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  3. It's a danger for us all. At one point, I was getting very nasty comments from someone who hated a person I had mentioned positivel on one of my blogs. I was asked to delete, and that was it.

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  4. It's a danger for us all. At one point, I was getting very nasty comments from someone who hated a person I had mentioned positivel on one of my blogs. I was asked to delete, and that was it.


    The same had happened to me before, and when contacted, I have always deleted the offending comments. In this case, the first I ever heard of Pamela Greenbaum's offense was a court order. In my opinion, an elected official should probably be able to handle being called a bigot by an anonymous commenter. An anonymous comment hardly holds water in terms of credibility, and the statement is clearly an opinion as opposed to fact.

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