nah she won and did a great service to her fellow human beings.
this was not lost or wasted time. people spend decades on far more "useless" things - not that there is anything wrong with that
> she won and did a great service to her fellow human beings
She didn't win, they settled out of court. The article definitely does its best to avoid mentioning even a single detail about the case beyond the outcome, and even that it misconstrues.
Dr. Duffy left a bad review for some psychics on the site "RipOff Report" and lied about her friend’s wife committing suicide due to bad advice given by the psychics. A few unsavory posts based on her behaviour ended up being published there as well. The big crime that Google committed was providing the most common autocompletes on search terms like it does for every other search query. In this case, it showed the search term “janice duffy psychic stalker” after typing in "janice duffy".
I don't see how any of this insane story counts as a "great service to her fellow human beings".
Oh, I'm not saying that she didn't do a great thing.
Have you ever spent years of your life tied up in litigation?
It's not fun. It's very frustrating, to feel as though a resolution will never happen. It feels indeterminate; indefinite.
It's a shame that she should have to spend twelve years of her life pursuing justice. What about the thousands or millions that simply won't try, because they can't rationalize the effort?
Lacerda69|2 years ago
mattstir|2 years ago
She didn't win, they settled out of court. The article definitely does its best to avoid mentioning even a single detail about the case beyond the outcome, and even that it misconstrues.
Dr. Duffy left a bad review for some psychics on the site "RipOff Report" and lied about her friend’s wife committing suicide due to bad advice given by the psychics. A few unsavory posts based on her behaviour ended up being published there as well. The big crime that Google committed was providing the most common autocompletes on search terms like it does for every other search query. In this case, it showed the search term “janice duffy psychic stalker” after typing in "janice duffy".
I don't see how any of this insane story counts as a "great service to her fellow human beings".
eckza|2 years ago
Have you ever spent years of your life tied up in litigation?
It's not fun. It's very frustrating, to feel as though a resolution will never happen. It feels indeterminate; indefinite.
It's a shame that she should have to spend twelve years of her life pursuing justice. What about the thousands or millions that simply won't try, because they can't rationalize the effort?
HPsquared|2 years ago
DrJaniceDuffy|2 years ago