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Re: How Google Sliced Away Our Knife Ads

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Post by duncan_bayne »

moe wrote: post #268
AnthonyMouse wrote: post #178

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>This is the same way you'd criticize a king, somebody you are beholden to. "Golly! I know you, the king, are not at fault, but some of these advisers of yours must have accidentally goofed up somewhere..." I don't buy it. People don't criticize a king at all . You don't criticize the communist party in Stalinist Russia, tactfully or otherwise. Doing that gets you sent to the gulag. The reason people say that it was…

Turning down paying customers because of some moral objection to pointy objects Are you suggesting the US government asked google to stop runnings ads for knives ? In the same country where I can pick up a semi automatic assault rifle at WalMart?

If it's semi-auto only, it's not an assault rifle. Litmus test: would military personnel use it to assault a target?

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Post by TomGullen »

SoftwareMaven wrote: post #234
TomGullen wrote: post #165

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How do you believe they are "closing the web"?

Google+, the Play Store and many other services are not open. In some cases, they may have APIs, but they are not open APIs. They have closed down more open platforms, such as Reader, in favor of the more closed platforms, like Google+. That doesn't mean they are a closed company today , but I believe they've turned the corner. Just like Facebook has a lot of OSS projects but isn't an "open company", I think Google h…

What evidence do you have that they give preferential treatment of their own services in search results? (Hopefully you can provide something more concrete than a suspicion or anecdotal evidence).

Everything I've read suggests google throws themselves in with everyone else in search results. They even penised one of their own sites once to keep it fair.

Re: How Google Sliced Away Our Knife Ads

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Post by TomGullen »

ta15151 wrote: post #222
rodgerd wrote: post #183

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Kives are just as lethal as guns? Hey, good news, armies of the world! Stop wasting money on complex mechanical weapons and ammunition, just buy knives! Your soldiers will be just as effective!

Armies don't typically fight unarmed opponents in close quarters. If you're unarmed and the attacker is within a few yards of you, a knife or a gun are not that different. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9igSoJHEdUo

So lets ban guns then, people only need knives for self defence.

Re: How Google Sliced Away Our Knife Ads

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Post by senegoid »

TomGullen wrote: post #280

Here's one possible explanation. Amazon is a high value customer so Google carefully reviewed their t&c to ensure their selling policies are in line with googles own policies. They confidently know that amazon won't sell anything illegal, and that amazon have measures in place to deal with rogue sellers on their service. They know amazon has been around for a long time and are trusted by google and the general public…

This is a fair comment. A company of Google's scale simply cannot monitor every Adwords account for compliance, so they are being safe. It doesn't mean this advertiser isn't untrustworthy or loose, just that Google cannot effectively monitor advertisers of this size.

I also can't understand the mantra of 'don't be evil' still gets mentioned. This is nothing more than cute brand association with no real grounding in truth. Google are a public company who can be evil. It is like the platitude that Google shuns product managers and welcomes engineers, implying that Google products sell themselves because of rock-solid engineering (totally disregarding the fact that Google have an aggressive sales force and have spent billions on marketing activities, both directly and indirectly).

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SoftwareMaven wrote: post #167
cromwellian wrote: post #144

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Google got sued over online drug ads before and had to pay $500 million in fines. The US Government was even running a criminal probe against Google that could have put executives in jail for these kinds of ads. So you can only imagine they are a lot more careful now given that experience. Alcohol, Weapons, and Drugs are areas regulated by various governments around the world and carry civil and criminal policies for…

What credentials does Google have to decide what is bogus versus what is not? Why should they get to decide what ads (for legal products) have a chance of being shown to me? Perhaps more importantly, especially for entrepreneurs, why should the effective "gateway to the Internet" be allowed to capriciously choose to favor established brands over small companies?

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Re: How Google Sliced Away Our Knife Ads

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Post by Stevenuteral »

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Re: How Google Sliced Away Our Knife Ads

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Post by anigbrowl »

NoPiece wrote: post #275
anigbrowl wrote: post #194

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I'm pretty sure it's the latter. I strongly suspect 'legal in all states' means that it just hasn't come to court yet. It's possible that the legal definition of a switchblade is so specific (eg about the button being on the handle of the knife and a safety switch being present) that this new design doesn't qualify, in which case this new design would be legal unless or until states see fit to prevent its sale.

Folding knives aren't new, and aren't primarily intended as an alternative to switchblades. Folding the blade into the handle just makes an easy to carry package, with your are a contractor, or a sportsman. Knife regulation is mostly around the length, not whether it folds or not. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buck_Knives

I'm not talking about folding knives; I have on in my pocket hanging off my keychain right now and I understand the difference. I'm talking about the spring-assisted mechanism.

Re: How Google Sliced Away Our Knife Ads

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Post by mannu4u4u »

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Re: How Google Sliced Away Our Knife Ads

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Post by bashinator »

mindcrime wrote: post #67
Anechoic wrote: post #33

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since the 2nd Amendment very specifically protects firearms ownership I've seen folks use that rationale, but the 2A doesn't say "firearms" it says "arms" - presumably "knives, nunchucks, brass knuckles, etc" would fall under that, although that's clearly not how it's been interpreted.

FWIW, I just found this article / paper discussing the very issue of knives and the 2nd Amendment. http://www.volokh.com/2013/03/25/knives-and-the-second-amend... The author(s) appear to take the position that knives are protected under the 2A and that many existing laws regulating knives are probably unconstitutional. At least from the bit I've had time to read so far...

If we're going to take a literalist reading of the 2A, shouldn't any armament that can be carried by a single person ("bear arms") be protected?
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