Google can control access to its resources and has contracts with the folks who ship bits to google.
Google has no control over the "great firewall". On Apr 2, 8:32 pm, Andy <selforgani...@gmail.com> wrote: > Just because Google isn't doing the blocking doesn't mean it's not > Google's problem. > > Using your (lack of) logic, if GAE is down because someone's attacking > it using DOS, does that mean it's also not Google's problem because > "google isn't doing the attacking"? > > On Apr 2, 7:16 pm, Andy Freeman <ana...@earthlink.net> wrote: > > > > > > Why shouldn't this be google's problem? > > > Suppose that I sold raincoats and you wanted to buy one of my > > raincoats. If someone else got between us and stopped me from > > delivering raincoats to you, who would you hold responsible? > > > Google isn't doing the blocking. > > > Yes, Google may be able to make more money if it can get around the > > blocking, but that doesn't change the fact that the blocks are not > > under Google's control. > > > In other words, blocking may be a problem, that is an issue, for > > Google, but it isn't Google's problem, that is, something that Google > > has some obligation to do act upon. > > > On Apr 2, 3:38 pm, Andy <selforgani...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Why shouldn't this be google's problem? > > > > Google's hosting platform is being blocked by the country with the > > > largest internet population in the world. You think that's not a major > > > problem? > > > > I've used plenty of hosting sites that are perfectly accessible from > > > China. So obviously this is a problem for Google. > > > > On Apr 2, 11:18 am, Barry Hunter <barrybhun...@googlemail.com> wrote: > > > > > And why is this Google's problem?- Hide quoted text - > > > > - Show quoted text -- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To post to this group, send email to google-appengine@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to google-appengine+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
