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On A Lighter Note

by Bryan

The BBC has been covering an on-going spat: Rupert Murdoch SOPA attack rebuffed by Google.

Murdoch is asking us to believe that there are thousands of sites created to illegally download Mission Impossible, and Google helps people find them.

I think that mental help professionals should be tracking anyone who wastes their time watching those products of News Corps, and set up a program to see if they can be returned to the human race.

Rupert must think that he has a great deal of credibility, as he has spent the last several months talking under oath before various governmental panels about the multiple crimes committed by his employees.

Here’s a clue – Google uses software ‘bots to search and index the ‘Net. The ‘bots don’t make moral judgments or render legal opinions, they simply copy down words and index them.

If Google does write an algorithm to ignore download sites, Rupert is going to have to set up his own search system to find them. That will be exceedingly expensive, and is easy to defeat.

BTW, the shut down day was switched to this Wednesday, the 18th. The original day is the Chinese New Year [Tet, Spring Festival]

4 comments

1 Steve Bates { 01.17.12 at 9:04 pm }

If you’ve seen videos of Rupert testifying in the past year, you know he is suffering rampaging senile dementia. He was never bright, and he’s growing dimmer by the minute.

Pro forma, I’m going dark tomorrow. You?

2 Bryan { 01.17.12 at 10:32 pm }

I’m going to put up a midnight post explaining why I oppose both PIPA and SOPA, and a link to the strike site. I don’t normally post until late at night anyway, so it isn’t like a claim of being dark would be meaningful.

There shouldn’t be any posts registered for the day.

3 Steve Bates { 01.18.12 at 1:20 pm }

Among many options, I chose to go dark from 8:00 AM ET to 8:00 PM ET, after which I’ve queued up a series of items mostly about SOPA and PIPA.

4 Bryan { 01.18.12 at 11:09 pm }

I will wait until tomorrow. It looks like it was fairly successful – it was even mentioned on a local radio station down here, so the word got out. I think “I Can Has Cheezburger” and “Cute Overload” sealed the deal. Duncan was the only ‘big’ site that ignored it.