Re: BEWARE: GOOGLES CENSORSHIP: BEWARE (of censorship!)

Daniel Joseph Min <Real.Min (AT) Colorado (DOT) USA> wrote:

On Sat, 11 Dec 2004, "deniALEXcuses" <alexcuster (AT) earthlink (DOT) net> wrote:
Let me ask this: Were you to use a different news-reader, would you still
experience that censorship?

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Yes, as it has nothing to do with the newsreader or platform, but
is specifically about preserving public access to a VERY important
ever-burgeoning historical and technological document called the
usenet newsgroup archives, which first archived newsgroup articles
date back to 1981 when there were only about 150 computers on the
network. Google's new "beta" is making uncensored public access to
archived-messages on the archives impossible. See for yourself...

There's NOTHING like the power of the demonstration. For example,
I can still link to my complete untruncated messages using Google's
foreign domain servers. And because I saved EVERY article and reply
that I've ever posted since March 1998 locally on my hard disks and
eventually backed them all up to CDs, I can go back and locate EVERY
message ID for EVERY message I've ever posted easily and quickly.

Back on October 8, 2001, I posted the first edition of my interlinear
translation of Nostradamus' Epistle Toward King Henry II of France on
message ID <8b43d3e8c100d8a88968a8c285373de2 (AT) mixmaster (DOT) nullify.org>,
then on May 5, 2003 I posted my translation of the Preface on message
ID <ZO0GBVCE37747.1379513889 (AT) Gilgamesh-frog (DOT) org>. Compare Google's
"beta" with the old-style Google by using UK's server from outside
the UK (I'm in Colorado, USA) to access the two aforecited articles:

http://www.google.co.uk./groups?selm...T) nullify.org
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm...T) nullify.org

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I'm really not sure why you use the word "censoring" as there doesn't seem to be
anything censorable in a post about Nostradamus! It looks more like a buggy,
poorly thought out beta by Google.

I do agree that it will be quite disturbing if Google does anything to eliminate
anything in the Usenet archives. This invaluable historical repository is really
something that should be held in public trust!

jw
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