Do internet search engines have a responsibility to remove “hate”? Google’s Israel head thinks not: Google is not the address for stopping online hate, the Israel director of the engine whose brand name is so well known that it means searching the Internet, told a conference on Monday. Organizers of the conference from the Anti-Defamation…
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Google day and night
If you think Google already has too much power in our connected world, they’re just warming up.
The changing media landscape
Bloggers beware: Disgruntled fans of Sheffield Wednesday who vented their dissatisfaction with the football club’s bigwigs in anonymous internet postings may face expensive libel claims after the chairman, chief executive and five directors won a high-court ruling last week forcing the owner of a website to reveal their identity. The case, featuring the website owlstalk.co.uk,…
Oh powerful one
The power of Google is only growing: Just a few moments ago, YouTube introduced the beta version of its “video identification” system, the purpose of which is to control the amount of infringing material that appears on the site. Under enormous pressure from movie studios and record labels and their friends on Capitol Hill to…