Any thoughts ?

ne0h

"hi, I am explorer.exe. sometimes when you are doing anything at all, I will just freeze for ten minutes. All of my brother and sister windows will also freeze, because they are sad for me. Maybe we will come back, maybe not, it will be a surprise!"

Lost User

Where were the google servers located? If its not India, was the offence commited in India?

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R Giskard Reventlov

What's the problem? He made some derogatory remarks he probably didn't have the courage to say to the persons face and got pulled for it. Why do you think it is okay to do that online and somehow, by virtue of the fact that you are somewhat remote or (erroneously) annonymous, you can say or do whatever you like? Yet another manifestation of actions without consequence: Google did the right thing. After all, if they had details of someone that killed an innocent person you'd be outraged if they didn't help.

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Oakman

We're not talking "a person," but Soniya Gandhi who is the leader of a political party. Any time the police can arrest someone for making a derogatory remark about a politician, you are no longer talking about a free society. How many habitues of Soapbox could be arrested on the same charge, if this was India? My guess is that Google would willingly turn over the name of any dissident no matter how repressive the regime, or heinous the punishment awaiting the person they handed over. And hide behind "just obeying local laws." I am afraid that "Do no harm" has turned into "Do no harm to our wallets."

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R Giskard Reventlov

Oops: my bad: If I'd known she was a politician I'd have joined in... :laugh: You've made a good point: I mostly withdraw what I said in the face of higher logic and reason.

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