Comments on: Freedom's Just Another Word For Taking Your Money To The Store Across The Street http://www.popehat.com/2009/07/21/freedoms-just-another-word-for-taking-your-money-to-the-store-across-the-street/ A Group Complaint about Law, Liberty, and Leisure Thu, 09 Feb 2012 22:39:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: One Conservative Blog Down. Thousands More to Go. “Just a Girl in Short Shorts Talking About Whatever” Is No More. « Rosita the Prole http://www.popehat.com/2009/07/21/freedoms-just-another-word-for-taking-your-money-to-the-store-across-the-street/comment-page-1/#comment-44336 One Conservative Blog Down. Thousands More to Go. “Just a Girl in Short Shorts Talking About Whatever” Is No More. « Rosita the Prole Sun, 20 Sep 2009 05:49:32 +0000 http://www.popehat.com/?p=5440#comment-44336 [...] One Conservative Blog Down. Thousands More to Go. “Just a Girl in Short Shorts Talking About Whatever” Is No More. 2009 September 20 by Rosita I’m just cutting and pasting all this in case it changes. This is a discussion with Google about the “Girl in Short Shorts” blog. Here are a few blog postings about this here and here. [...] [...] One Conservative Blog Down. Thousands More to Go. "Just a Girl in Short Shorts Talking About Whatever" Is No More. 2009 September 20 by Rosita I'm just cutting and pasting all this in case it changes. This is a discussion with Google about the "Girl in Short Shorts" blog. Here are a few blog postings about this here and here. [...]

]]> By: Ken http://www.popehat.com/2009/07/21/freedoms-just-another-word-for-taking-your-money-to-the-store-across-the-street/comment-page-1/#comment-36465 Ken Wed, 22 Jul 2009 16:28:26 +0000 http://www.popehat.com/?p=5440#comment-36465 Rick Klau, Blogger Product Manager, has a <a href="http://tins.rklau.com/2009/07/blogger-and-adult-content.html" rel="nofollow">blog post up about this.</a> His assertion: Blogger only put the warning page up based upon its determination that the blog included images of nudity, which under Blogger's TOS merits such a warning page. If that's true -- and I haven't viewed the pages of the blog in question myself -- then I think I follow Rick's argument. I'm not sure how Blogger could be in a position to evaluate the subjective motives of people reporting images that, objective, violate TOS. Of course, this simply brings one back to the personal responsibility argument that if one wants to post such images one ought not sign up to have image-posting rights limited by a TOS like that of Blogger. Rick Klau, Blogger Product Manager, has a blog post up about this. His assertion: Blogger only put the warning page up based upon its determination that the blog included images of nudity, which under Blogger's TOS merits such a warning page.

If that's true — and I haven't viewed the pages of the blog in question myself — then I think I follow Rick's argument. I'm not sure how Blogger could be in a position to evaluate the subjective motives of people reporting images that, objective, violate TOS.

Of course, this simply brings one back to the personal responsibility argument that if one wants to post such images one ought not sign up to have image-posting rights limited by a TOS like that of Blogger.

]]> By: Danimal http://www.popehat.com/2009/07/21/freedoms-just-another-word-for-taking-your-money-to-the-store-across-the-street/comment-page-1/#comment-36455 Danimal Wed, 22 Jul 2009 12:58:37 +0000 http://www.popehat.com/?p=5440#comment-36455 Aww, man, why didn't you point us to that blog before? Pure snarky goodness, and now it's dead. Bah. Ah, well, at least I can follow her on Twitter. Damned turnip molesters, shutting down good sites like that. Aww, man, why didn't you point us to that blog before? Pure snarky goodness, and now it's dead. Bah. Ah, well, at least I can follow her on Twitter.

Damned turnip molesters, shutting down good sites like that.

]]> By: Robert http://www.popehat.com/2009/07/21/freedoms-just-another-word-for-taking-your-money-to-the-store-across-the-street/comment-page-1/#comment-36420 Robert Wed, 22 Jul 2009 00:45:22 +0000 http://www.popehat.com/?p=5440#comment-36420 While I don't think Google should be regulated (yet!) there's a meta-point here: The internet 2.0 way of "mob rule" is not truly conducive to democracy. And if it becomes possible for mobs to bury information so most people can't see it, we may have a problem. Sites where crowds vote stories up, like DIGG or Reddit seem to attract the lowest-common-denominator, are full of counter-productive hate speech (just try to say something good about Israel there, or Jews for that matter!), and have a lot of "news" with dubious sources. While I don't think Google should be regulated (yet!) there's a meta-point here: The internet 2.0 way of "mob rule" is not truly conducive to democracy. And if it becomes possible for mobs to bury information so most people can't see it, we may have a problem.

Sites where crowds vote stories up, like DIGG or Reddit seem to attract the lowest-common-denominator, are full of counter-productive hate speech (just try to say something good about Israel there, or Jews for that matter!), and have a lot of "news" with dubious sources.

]]> By: Ken http://www.popehat.com/2009/07/21/freedoms-just-another-word-for-taking-your-money-to-the-store-across-the-street/comment-page-1/#comment-36404 Ken Tue, 21 Jul 2009 22:03:37 +0000 http://www.popehat.com/?p=5440#comment-36404 <blockquote>(Try it. There’s a button below which will allow you to report this post. If you do so, I’ll know about it and laugh at you, because you’re reporting it to me.)</blockquote> Actually, you won't find the button any more. I had to disable it because spammers figured out how to use it. Also I got sick of the people reporting you for being mean. Whine, whine, whine. Though I didn't read Scott as calling for regulation, I also found his calling out of libertarians on this issue to be very odd. What happened here is perfectly libertarian. If you decide not to buy yourself sweaters because you can count on Great Aunt Agnes to send you sweaters for free every Christmas, you're going to be wearing some really ugly sweaters. If you pay for your sweaters, they'll be to your liking. But I agree with the goal of wide publication of the fact that Google's and Blogger's free lunch is not, in fact, free.

(Try it. There’s a button below which will allow you to report this post. If you do so, I’ll know about it and laugh at you, because you’re reporting it to me.)

Actually, you won't find the button any more. I had to disable it because spammers figured out how to use it. Also I got sick of the people reporting you for being mean. Whine, whine, whine.

Though I didn't read Scott as calling for regulation, I also found his calling out of libertarians on this issue to be very odd. What happened here is perfectly libertarian. If you decide not to buy yourself sweaters because you can count on Great Aunt Agnes to send you sweaters for free every Christmas, you're going to be wearing some really ugly sweaters. If you pay for your sweaters, they'll be to your liking.

But I agree with the goal of wide publication of the fact that Google's and Blogger's free lunch is not, in fact, free.

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