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Few people know that Google voluntarily removes some search results
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Re: Few people know that Google voluntarily removes some search results
#192I'd like to take this opportunity to share some relevant exercepts from In The Plex[^1] about Eric Schmidt, then-CEO of Google. > One day Denise Griffin got a call from Eric Schmidt’s assistant. “There’s this information about Eric in the indexes,” she told Griffin. “And we want it out.” In Griffin’s recollection, it dealt with donor information from a political campaign, exactly the type of public information that G…
Is this the same Eric Schmidt as in "If You Have Something You Don’t Want Anyone To Know, Maybe You Shouldn’t Be Doing It"? [0] https://www.huffpost.com/entry/google-ceo-on-privacy-if_n_38...
The context of that quote was him explaining that Google has to comply with legal government requests for information.
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#193Earlier quoted context omitted.
IMO both of these options are terrible. I seem to lean quite far on the freedom side of most arguments, but I do acknowledge there are times when action may need to be taken in the interest of the public. My objection is that I neither want it to be impossible to take action or for a foreign company to unilaterally decide what action to take. What we need in situations like this is a legal process. If one doesn't exi…
I appreciate this response! I agree that a legal process seems to be the best solution (so far) to collectively deciding what is and isn't ok. The legal system has its own faults of course. It's administered by fallible governments and can have individual bad actors. But could a legal system expect to exert control over a decentralized system like a blockchain? Put another way, if there was a "crypto twitter" clone,…
You can do that today: it is possible to embed arbitrary information in a bitcoin transaction. For example, look at the message section https://chain.so/tx/BTC/27daac15b942454b32f913a41633151163d1...
I don't know of any situation where someone has used this to dox someone, but nothing prevents it.
Re: Few people know that Google voluntarily removes some search results
#194I wonder what checks and balances are in place. Can someone be a complete dirtbag and request that legitimate criticism be removed simply because they don't want folks to know they're a dirtbag? Can convicts request the results be removed? How about sex offenders? How about people convicted of domestic violence assaults or similar?
Its a check on the state.
You can still go to individual services or your local municipality and ask.
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#195Earlier quoted context omitted.
> People often pay electricians even for tasks that are just "flip a switch and turn some screws," after all. The ultimate reason people pay electricians is liability. Unlicensed work is an easy way to invalidate your homeowner's insurance, lose everything, and get sued for any damage to your neighbors' property (by their insurance company, no less).
My view is that if the only reason you are doing something is because of the insurance implications, then you've surely made the wrong decision. Nobody's interests are less aligned with your own than an insurance company's. There are lots of legitimate reasons to hire an electrician, but making decisions solely based on what someone who wants you to perpetually give them money whole finding reasons to never give it b…
In Australia we have 240V at the power point so i don't risk it. I know a guy, he's good and i don't mind paying him to avoid all the risks.
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#196Earlier quoted context omitted.
My view is that if the only reason you are doing something is because of the insurance implications, then you've surely made the wrong decision. Nobody's interests are less aligned with your own than an insurance company's. There are lots of legitimate reasons to hire an electrician, but making decisions solely based on what someone who wants you to perpetually give them money whole finding reasons to never give it b…
Nobody's interests are less aligned with your own than an insurance company's when it comes time to pay out. Investigating a case is expensive, let alone litigating one against someone with their life's assets on the line, so it's in their best interest to prevent the event they're insuring against from occurring. They have the most accurate up to date data on real world outcomes so especially in professional circums…
> Nobody's interests are less aligned with your own than an insurance company's when it comes time to pay out.
Yup. They know having an electrician do all the work minimizes the risk of you needing to get payed out, so they want it so.
But the insurance doesn't care about your additional cost, since it's your cost, not theirs.
They don't go "cost of professional 0".
Then again, electrical work can be life threatening, so the potential damage is rather high.
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#197Couldn't fit the whole tweet, so just to be clear, she's talking about manual, non-legal requests: > One of the surprising things about working on the slander series is how few people in the field, even experts, know that Google voluntarily removes some search results. (No court order needed!) You have to visit this generic url: https://support.google.com/websearch/troubleshooter/3111061?... Down the thread, she adds…
> Because so few people know about it, "reputation managers" are charging people like $500 a pop to "remove damaging information from Google results." And ALL THEY DO is fill out that form for free. Someone tried to hawk this service to my husband after he came under attack. While that sounds like a high price, and you usually don't want to just hire the first person you see advertise a service, the concept of specia…
On a related note, how do I find a list of electrical codes (or any code for that matter) for my area without going through an expensive subscription?
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#198Earlier quoted context omitted.
First result...under 4 ads that probably make you pay to do the thing google does for free for you.
I get 0 ads on that search. The very first result, above anything but their header, is https://support.google.com/websearch/troubleshooter/3111061 .
3 ads + featured snippet before the result for me.
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#199Earlier quoted context omitted.
First result...under 4 ads that probably make you pay to do the thing google does for free for you.
2 ads and a card linking directly to the Google support article explaining how to remove it here.
I guess I'm just lucky: https://imgur.com/IQPdvej.png
The answer is almost below the fold on my 13" macbook pro
Re: Few people know that Google voluntarily removes some search results
#200Couldn't fit the whole tweet, so just to be clear, she's talking about manual, non-legal requests: > One of the surprising things about working on the slander series is how few people in the field, even experts, know that Google voluntarily removes some search results. (No court order needed!) You have to visit this generic url: https://support.google.com/websearch/troubleshooter/3111061?... Down the thread, she adds…
And ALL THEY DO is fill out that form for free. Someone tried to hawk this service to my husband after he came under attack.
It's like I tell my boss: "You don't pay me to push buttons. You pay me to know which buttons to push."
(I think I stole it from the plumbing industry.)