Re: [WikiEN-l] Google bows to censorship

2010-01-17 Thread Christopher Grant
(from smh article) >Mr Newhouse believes the site would be filtered under the Federal Government's mandatory filter. The plot thickens... Sure their articles racist and are basically designed offend everyone, however I personally don't feel conformable with the government being able to block a sit

Re: [WikiEN-l] Google bows to censorship

2010-01-17 Thread Gwern Branwen
On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 12:13 PM, Anthony wrote: > On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 11:58 AM, Anthony wrote: >> If censoring some things (like "the most offensive sorts of racial >> vilification you could possibly find"), and refusing to censor other things >> (like an historical account of a pro-democrac

Re: [WikiEN-l] Google Books settlement reached

2010-01-17 Thread Andrew Gray
2010/1/17 geni : > 2010/1/17 Gwern Branwen : >> Notice that it's opt-out, which for a real orphan work means no one >> will opt-out. Preview is better than nothing, for us. (It was >> unrealistic to expect Google to be able to offer full downloads.) > > Are orphan books that common? In most cases t

Re: [WikiEN-l] Google Books settlement reached

2010-01-17 Thread geni
2010/1/17 Gwern Branwen : > Notice that it's opt-out, which for a real orphan work means no one > will opt-out. Preview is better than nothing, for us. (It was > unrealistic to expect Google to be able to offer full downloads.) Are orphan books that common? In most cases they have a clear single a

Re: [WikiEN-l] Google bows to censorship

2010-01-17 Thread Fred Bauder
>> Google has agreed to take down links to a website that promotes racist >> views of indigenous Australians. >> Aboriginal man Steve Hodder-Watt recently discovered the US-based site >> by searching "Aboriginal and Encyclopedia" in the search engine. >> He tried to modify the entry on Encyclopedia

Re: [WikiEN-l] Google Books settlement reached

2010-01-17 Thread Gwern Branwen
On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 9:59 AM, Carcharoth wrote: > On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 2:17 PM, Gwern Branwen wrote: >> On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 3:34 AM, Carcharoth >> wrote: >>> It seems a settlement has been reached between Google Books and those >>> taking action against it. Anyone here know what this

Re: [WikiEN-l] Google bows to censorship

2010-01-17 Thread Sage Ross
On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 10:00 AM, Gwern Branwen wrote: >> Google has agreed to take down links to a website that promotes racist views >> of indigenous Australians. This story says the SMH one is misleading: http://www.inquisitr.com/57105/aus-media-gets-ed-story-wrong/ The statement from Google

[WikiEN-l] Google bows to censorship

2010-01-17 Thread Gwern Branwen
> Google has agreed to take down links to a website that promotes racist views > of indigenous Australians. > Aboriginal man Steve Hodder-Watt recently discovered the US-based site by > searching "Aboriginal and Encyclopedia" in the search engine. > He tried to modify the entry on Encyclopedia Dr

Re: [WikiEN-l] Google Books settlement reached

2010-01-17 Thread Carcharoth
On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 2:17 PM, Gwern Branwen wrote: > On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 3:34 AM, Carcharoth > wrote: >> It seems a settlement has been reached between Google Books and those >> taking action against it. Anyone here know what this means in terms of >> what we do and how we use Google Book

Re: [WikiEN-l] Google Books settlement reached

2010-01-17 Thread Gwern Branwen
On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 3:34 AM, Carcharoth wrote: > It seems a settlement has been reached between Google Books and those > taking action against it. Anyone here know what this means in terms of > what we do and how we use Google Books? > > http://books.google.com/googlebooks/agreement/ > > Carch

[WikiEN-l] Google Books settlement reached

2010-01-17 Thread Carcharoth
It seems a settlement has been reached between Google Books and those taking action against it. Anyone here know what this means in terms of what we do and how we use Google Books? http://books.google.com/googlebooks/agreement/ Carcharoth ___ WikiEN-l