The New York Times is reporting that the Italian judicial decision to convict Google executives of violating content rules by disseminating search content that this Italian judge found objectionable has resulted in a rethinking of Google’s role in the future. People are beginning to worry that search is going to change and that content is going to be inaccessible. There’s a real sense of worry.
Poppycock. Listen, the judge is wrong. And even if 90% of the world agreed, what American official is going to get caught with blood on his hands for extradition? Let’s stop worrying about how we’re all going to have to behave different in this Orwellian digital future and just suffice to say the guy’s an uninformed moron who made a mistake.
This is all much ado about nothing. Can somebody back me up?
