A Google Perspective from the Other Side of the Age Gap
February 3, 2014
A happy quack to the reader who sent me a link to “Max Mosley: Google Is So Arrogant They Do Whatever They Like.” I am not sure about the accuracy of the story, but the tone and approach was interesting to me.
The focus of the article is Max Mosley, who “served as the long-time president of Fédération Internationale de l’Automobile (FIA), the governing body for Formula One and other international motor sports. My hunch is that the fellow is not a fan of Google’s self driving vehicles, but I am just speculating.
The gist of the Mosley Google mash up is that:
Google continued to list search results containing links to illegal photos of Mosley. He sued in both France and Germany to have the images automatically filtered out of search results. In November 2013, a Paris court ordered Google to filter out nine images. The California-based company says it has already started the appeals process against that ruling. On Friday, a Hamburg regional court issued a similar verdict. It ordered Google to block six images showing the racing boss in a compromising setting…
Tucked in the article were several comments I jotted down as quotes to note:
- “It is enormously expensive to sue in the US. Besides, to be honest, I have very little confidence in the US courts. If I had sued in England, it would have been seen as an entirely English thing. The truth is that it’s a European issue. And that’s why I took it to Germany and France — both countries have weight in Europe.”
- “If you ask Google to “take down these pictures,” then they do it, even though they aren’t very quick about it. At the same time, Google denies that it has the technological capacity to filter out images. But that’s nonsense. They are actually lying. And this despite their motto “Don’t Be Evil”. There’s something seriously wrong with Google. Technologically, they’re brilliant, sensational. But morally, its management is completely adolescent. The company is so big and so arrogant, they do whatever they like, they think they are above the law.”
- “But in the end it has to decide whether it wants to live in a democracy. Google behaves like an adolescent rebelling against the establishment.”
Mr. Mosley reveals that he uses Gmail, adding, “I am certain that Google reads all my emails.”
Stephen E Arnold, February 3, 2014
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