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Re:Two things about SOPA/PIPA and then I'll shut up by snprbob86 on Saturday January 21, 2012 @08:44PM (#3495323)
> what's stopping Google from declaring war on the MPAA

Google bends over backwards to make sure that their rankings are entirely algorithmic so that they can retain the moral high-ground and various legal protections. It would be insane for Google to jeopardize either of those things or to risk anti-competitive and anti-trust prosecution.

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Re:Two things about SOPA/PIPA and then I'll shut up by pgeorgi on Sunday January 22, 2012 @03:53AM (#3496069)
So instead, it's time for googlebombing the sites out of the index? Might make more of an impact (longer-lasting, too) than the OpMegaupload DDoS.

Google can keep its moral highground, and the delisting is "for the people, by the people" ;-)

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Re:Two things about SOPA/PIPA and then I'll shut up by anamax on Sunday January 22, 2012 @09:59AM (#3496670)
> Google bends over backwards to make sure that their rankings are entirely algorithmic so that they can retain the moral high-ground and various legal protections.

Do you really think that algorithms are necessarily neutral? (Hint: they're not. Consider a "hate speech" detector. It's easy to implement bias using "neutral" algorithms with "reasonable" decisions.)

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