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Submission + - Just Say "NON!" - France Demands Right of Global Google Censorship (vortex.com)

Lauren Weinstein writes: I've been waiting for this, much the way one waits for a violent case of food poisoning.

France is now officially demanding that Google expand the hideous EU "Right To Be Forgotten" (RTBF) to Google.com worldwide, instead of just applying it to the appropriate localized (e.g. France) version of Google.

And here's my official response as a concerned individual:

To hell with this ...

Comment Re:Why? (Score 1) 348

Your argument is that it's OK to torture your children if there is no law against it.

There is a difference between morality and legality. Actions may be legal while still being immoral. Punishment through the legal system should be limited to actions that are illegal.

Comment "Bull$%^&," really? (Score 1) 146

Censoring your own profanity is one thing (albeit kind of silly in my opinion; why is implying it worse than actually spelling it out?) But when you're quoting somebody else -- and linking to their article -- you really ought to use their own words. If you're afraid that your readers are going to be offended by profanity, then you probably ought to not be linking to those articles.

Comment Re:Why? (Score 2) 348

So it's fine to be part of the problem as long as you don't break a law?

Whether or not it's "fine," we absolutely should not jail people who don't break the law. Doing so is going down a very, very dangerous road.

Comment If they're to be believed... (Score 4, Insightful) 172

If Sourceforge is to be believed -- that all they did was create a mirror, without touching the owner's page -- then that's not in itself a bad thing to do. Providing mirrors of open-source software would be perfectly acceptable for another organization.

But this isn't another organization, this is Sourceforge. They've already demonstrated that they have no qualms about using their "mirrors" to distribute malware by misrepresenting the content of the downloads. Therefore, they have no credibility to be running a mirror, and nobody should trust anything that comes from their download pages.

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