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Author here. It's really not clear what criteria GSB uses to decide at which level the ban should apply.
Probably when the ratio of bad sites to good sites at a particular subdomain level passes a threshold.
This is terrifying - what business is it of Google’s what party A uploads to MY servers? And how are they getting that information without dramatically violating the privacy of their users?
Google will of course do everything in their power to stop that from happening, but every little bit of opposition helps --- from recommending others to not install censorware browsers, to showing them articles like this --- because this is a fight for the freedom for the Internet. As big as Google is, the Internet is far bigger.
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I'm curious if whales more dangerous on an hour-by-hour basis than driving? That's generally my rubric for whether a safety concern is possibly worth avoiding an activity over.
> I'm curious if whales more dangerous on an hour-by-hour basis than driving? It depends on how many passengers you pack in a whale.
This is actually funny, because I was involved with the creation of this list, way back in 2004. The whole thing started as a way to stop phishing. I was working at eBay/PayPal at the time, and we were finding a bunch of new phishing sites every day. We would keep a list and try to track down the owners of the (almost always hacked) sites and ask them to take it down. But sometimes it would take weeks or months for t…
> since then it seems that they have forgotten their fear of liability They most likely have offloaded the liability to a “machine learning algorithm”. It’s easy for companies to point the finger at an algorithm instead of them taking responsibility.
Either take responsibility, or be transparent.
But we all want our cake and eat it
After years of seeing developments like this, getting worse and worse, it fills me with rage to think about how clearly nobody in power at Google cares. I naively used to think, "they probably don't realize what's happening and will fix it." I always try to give benefit of the doubt, especially having been on the other side so many times and seeing how 9 times out of 10 it's not malice, just incompetence, apathy, or…
Much less control of the Internet.
One lesson is use IP and not the Web.