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A comment on Sergey Brin's Clarification On Guardian article. Parent comment

Re:Sergey Brin's Clarification On Guardian article by rbarooah on Wednesday April 18, 2012 @09:22AM (#3857765)
You've actually made my point for me. "Redirecting traffic and subtly punishing users" is far from a walled garden, and would lead to an instant backlash if detected.

As I said, they don't have the power to close the internet that you attribute to them. This has nothing to do with their culture, however great you might think it is.

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Re:Sergey Brin's Clarification On Guardian article by tferris on Wednesday April 18, 2012 @10:57AM (#3858227)
Discussing a hairsplitting definition of a walled garden doesn't make sense here. Google do not deadlock wether users nor site owner/publishers (referred above as "users" as well) to use their products but they could as explained above (deadlock=walled garden).
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Re:Sergey Brin's Clarification On Guardian article by rbarooah on Wednesday April 18, 2012 @11:33AM (#3858430)
It sounds as though you are now claiming that Google has already turned the Internet into a Walled Garden but are simply nicer in their policies than anyone else.

This is the first time I've heard anyone make this claim.

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