The new, free speech, gatekeepers


	The new, free speech, gatekeepers
balthazarus
11-30-2008 5:03 AM
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google, free speech
balthazarus says:
"Given their clashing and sometimes self-contradictory missions — to obey local laws, repressive or not, and to ensure that information knows no bounds; to do no evil and to be everywhere in a sometimes evil world — Wong and her colleagues at Google seem to be working impressively to put the company’s long-term commitment to free expression above its short-term financial interests. But they won’t be at Google forever, and if history is any guide, they may eventually be replaced with lawyers who are more concerned about corporate profits than about free expression. “We’re at the dawn of a new technology,” Walker told me, referring not simply to Google but also to the many different ways we now interact online. “And when people try to come up with the best metaphors to describe it, all the metaphors run out. We’ve built this spaceship, but we really don’t know where it will take us.”
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11-30-2008 5:04 AM
balthazarus
more from the article:
“To love Google, you have to be a little bit of a monarchist, you have to have faith in the way people traditionally felt about the king,” Tim Wu, a Columbia law professor and a former scholar in residence at Google, told me recently. “One reason they’re good at the moment is they live and die on trust"
11-30-2008 8:16 AM
shaor
they were right that one government should not make the rules for the world!
11-30-2008 6:42 PM
Silkweaver
This is a very complex issue. I imagine that if the offended party was an individual and not a government, a plea to suppress the offensive content would have been treated differently. Now if a democratic government tries to suppress an offensive content on the internet, it would be, I think, legitimate in representing the sentiment of a majority of voters. The issue is primarily with non democratic governments that do not represent the public but a small ruling class. I think that in general resolving such issues cannot be entirely in the hands of a service provider such as Google. Net freedom and net ethics is far too important and I am not sure the Google's employees or Google's policy or...
11-30-2008 10:50 PM
LadyGladiator
I'm apolitical. So, all the political jargon means nothing to me.

However, I do agree this is a very complex issue. Freedom of press doesn't seem so free for some.
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}"><//NYT_HEADLINE></H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/30/magazine/30google-t.html?pagewanted=1&ref=technology"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.nytimes.com/img/3C1C387C-E86F-4AE2-9C0A-8B4C4A331469" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/30/magazine/30google-t.html?pagewanted=1&ref=technology">In March of last year, Nicole Wong, the deputy general counsel of Google, was 
notified that there had been a precipitous drop in activity on YouTube in 
Turkey, and that the press was reporting that the Turkish government was 
blocking access to YouTube for virtually all Turkish Internet users</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/30/magazine/30google-t.html?pagewanted=1&ref=technology">the video that sparked the controversy was a parody news broadcast </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/30/magazine/30google-t.html?pagewanted=1&ref=technology">After having many of the videos translated into English, Wong and her colleagues 
set out to determine which ones were, in fact, illegal in Turkey; which violated 
YouTube’s terms of service prohibiting hate speech but allowing political 
speech; and which constituted expression that Google and YouTube would try to 
protect</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/30/magazine/30google-t.html?pagewanted=1&ref=technology">a Turkish prosecutor made a sweeping demand: that Google block access to the 
offending videos throughout the world</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/30/magazine/30google-t.html?pagewanted=1&ref=technology">Google refused, arguing that one nation’s government shouldn’t be able to set 
the limits of speech for Internet users worldwide</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/30/magazine/30google-t.html?pagewanted=1&ref=technology">Turkish government today continues to block access </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/30/magazine/30google-t.html?pagewanted=1&ref=technology"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.nytimes.com/img/558216E2-5882-4A8A-9CA1-883EB27F6601" alt="" /></div></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/C23CFDC5-59EE-44FB-9582-558A9F320947/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>
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