Thanks for posting this. It's definitely a topic that has interested me since I learned of it, but I hadn't yet found time to dig around to get more information.
While I don't think I agree with Lantos's position, he's one person who does have significant standing to make comparisons with Nazi Germany. And in addressing the specific point the Microsoft guy was making, Lantos was right.
I should point out that I value The Register more for their articles' humourous value than their journalistic merit and would not choose to link to them as a source of authoritative information.
I do not know anything at all about anybody named Lantos, elected representative or otherwise, and have no knowledge of, nor much interest in, what individuals had to say at the hearing. The consequences, if any, may be of interest - to Google, Walmart and others.
An American by choice, Tom Lantos was born in Budapest, Hungary, on February 1, 1928. He was 16 years of age when Nazi Germany occupied his native country. As a teenager, he was placed in a Hungarian fascist forced labor camp. He succeeded in escaping and was able to survive in a safe house in Budapest set up by Swedish humanitarian Raoul Wallenberg. His story is one of the individual accounts which forms the basis of Steven Spielberg's Academy Award winning documentary about the Holocaust in Hungary, The Last Days.
I'm afraid we still don't get it. How does this video violate local law? It's a bomb, it goes off. It doesnt even hurt anyone, so IMHO that makes it PG, not "banned in the USA of patriotic 'Merica"
Hell, I watched the video of Nick Berg. The whole video. It turned my stomach, but that's the kind of freedom of information that Google is supposed to stand for.
This is the first time we've encountered internet censortship, and it comes directly after the move into China. We're concenred that Google's proactive move into chinese territory may force it to make consessions across its footprint that it would not previously have had to.
Turns out that the uploader gets to select which countries it is visible in. I'm told that the message has been changed to be more clear that it is at the uploaders request.
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Date: 2006-02-16 06:47 pm (UTC)I do not know anything at all about anybody named Lantos, elected representative or otherwise, and have no knowledge of, nor much interest in, what individuals had to say at the hearing. The consequences, if any, may be of interest - to Google, Walmart and others.
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Date: 2006-02-20 12:48 am (UTC)http://triggur.livejournal.com/124502.html
"Evil" level rising?
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Date: 2006-02-20 08:46 pm (UTC)Hell, I watched the video of Nick Berg. The whole video. It turned my stomach, but that's the kind of freedom of information that Google is supposed to stand for.
This is the first time we've encountered internet censortship, and it comes directly after the move into China. We're concenred that Google's proactive move into chinese territory may force it to make consessions across its footprint that it would not previously have had to.
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Date: 2006-02-24 04:58 am (UTC)"We're sorry, but the provider of this video has not authorized Google to display this video in your location."
Thanks for checking it out for us all :)
-foxes