Google in crosshairs over gun ban

Technology Jul. 05, 2012 - 03:26PM JST ( 3 )

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Thomas AndersonJul. 05, 2012 - 06:43PM JST

Interesting... Imagine when corporations become bigger than governments (like Walmart... which already IS bigger than many governments).
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fdsJul. 06, 2012 - 08:56AM JST

if they banned it from search it would be censorship which is also against their policy. so now we know google shopping is basically a paid service and doesn't necessarily give the best results. buyer beware. if you don't like it you don't have to use it. you can still use search.
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LFRAgainJul. 06, 2012 - 05:26PM JST

"Tell Google not to interfere with our 2nd amendment rights"

LOL! I can see where people might take issue if a company is told not to sell something by, say, federal regulators. But when a private company decides of its own volition to not sell a certain product, and opponents claim the company has some sort of obligation to sell that product in order to, let me get this straight, uphold their (poorly understood) constitutional rights . . . ? Hee hee! The gun folks get more and more interesting every day.

If Google decides not to be a marketplace for guns, that's entirely its prerogative as a wholly private corporate entity. Private companies have no obligation, legal or otherwise, to uphold constitutional laws. They can't impede them, of course. But they aren't tasked with upholding them. That's the job of the police and the courts.

To claim otherwise demonstrates the same appalling ignorance -- no, wait, I'll use a smaller word here -- the same stupidity that allows gun nuts to so thoroughly bastardize the actual meaning of the 2nd Amendment in order to suit their particular violence fetish.

As conservative asshats of the gun-toting variety are all too eager to tell anyone they don't agree with, if you don't like it, just don't shop at Google. There are -- sadly -- plenty of other entirely legal marketplaces in the United States from which one can buy his or her ideal people-killer.

Yeah, I know, I know, bunkie. This does mean you'll still have to stroke your gun-on the old fashioned way by dragging your butts out of your La-Z-Boy armchairs for the 20-minute drive to the nearest Wal-Mart sporting goods section. But hey, that didn't stop you from putting some 200 million firearms on the streets of America up to this point right? And you'll get some much needed exercise along the way! See? Win-win! :-)

Besides, I thought gun lovers were also staunch conservatives in favor of all things free market-oriented? You want an online marketplace that sees some 2.5 million hits a day and sells guns? Go build one yourself and have a ball.