Google News to shut down in Spain

Post by sounds » Thu, Dec 11, 2014, 3:54 AM UTC

dyadic wrote: post #39

chetanahuja wrote: post #15

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Completely agree with the sad trend. Though to be fair, the scourge of geolocation based blocking started with media companies (mostly American, but also bbc and others) in a bid to recreate the DVD region encoding bullshit on the internet. Add to that the NSA merrily slurping up data from the global firehose... there's no innocence left to corrupt at this point.

There are two sides to the scourge. WRT the BBC, they produce quality content, partly funded by us Brits and partly funded by exporting the content to other countries. With the internet they have limited choices: * Keep things off the internet and disappoint everyone * Put things on the global internet and lose export value * Put things on the internet but geolocate to the UK and retain export value Clearly for them,…

Post by sounds » Thu, Dec 11, 2014, 3:58 AM UTC

Throwaway9111 wrote: post #40

Does still anyone believe that 9/11 was a terrorist attack. A lot of Europeans think it was the US government itself.

  Does still anyone believe that 9/11 was a terrorist
  attack. A lot of Europeans think it was the US
  government itself.

Post by Throwaway9111 » Thu, Dec 11, 2014, 4:01 AM UTC

sounds wrote: post #43

Throwaway9111 wrote: post #40

Does still anyone believe that 9/11 was a terrorist attack. A lot of Europeans think it was the US government itself.

When you say "A lot of Europeans," can you cite a source, like a poll or even an internet forum, where like-minded Europeans express this view? I'm not challenging your assertion, I'd just like to see it in action and measure it for myself. Edit: in case you edit or delete your post, this is what I'm asking about: Does still anyone believe that 9/11 was a terrorist attack. A lot of Europeans think it was the US gover…

Post by RA_Fisher » Thu, Dec 11, 2014, 4:04 AM UTC

rgbrenner wrote: post #44

rsync wrote: post #13

Things are going very badly for a global internet if we are discussing a web site "shutting down in spain". Of course we all know what that means and it seems very sensible in 2014, but remember - if someone had told you in 1998 that a certain website would not be operating in country X, you would have laughed and explained to them (like a child) that the Internet was a single global network and that if one had Inter…

Just to be clear, Google is subject to this law because Google operates and has offices in Spain. It seems reasonable that Google should comply with the laws of where they do business.

Post by juliocc » Thu, Dec 11, 2014, 4:04 AM UTC

Throwaway9111 wrote: post #45

sounds wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

When you say "A lot of Europeans," can you cite a source, like a poll or even an internet forum, where like-minded Europeans express this view? I'm not challenging your assertion, I'd just like to see it in action and measure it for myself. Edit: in case you edit or delete your post, this is what I'm asking about: Does still anyone believe that 9/11 was a terrorist attack. A lot of Europeans think it was the US gover…

http://www.globalresearch.ca/all-you-need-to-know-about-9-11...