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vadfa | 4 years ago

Is it legally a good idea for Google to go and blacklist individual sites?

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They killed off the Wikipedia clones that way. It's funny that they haven't come back even though the SO clones do the exact same thing.

SrslyJosh|4 years ago

Wikipedia clones probably got enough traffic to show up on someone's dashboard/report. SO clones are probably a small fraction of all traffic, even though they seem to show up in a large percentage of the searches we perform.

skinkestek|4 years ago

I guess Wikipedia kind of got their rampant deletionism under control while Stack Exchange did not?

GhettoComputers|4 years ago

Child porn is the extreme. www.chillingeffects.org is the other.

briffle|4 years ago

Exactly, change the word blacklist to censor, and then it seems wrong.

SrslyJosh|4 years ago

But that's not censorship. Google is not a government, and no one's speech is being suppressed by filtering out literal copies of something and leaving the original.

labster|4 years ago

Change the flag button on this post to censor and I bet people wouldn’t click it. But people want some level of censorship, so long as they convince themselves they’re not against free speech.