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catsittingstillAndy Carvin on Google+ reports Google's CEO Eric Schmidt as saying (roughly) "He also said the internet would be better if we knew you were a real person rather than a dog or a fake person."
One wonders what exactly Mr. Schmidt meant by "fake person."
A rape victim, for example? Would she be a fake person? How about a pro-democracy activist in China, or an atheist or a gay person in the rural American South? Would that be what Mr Schmidt meant by "fake people?" Or maybe Mr. Schmidt means poor people? Or minorities?
And how about that "rather than a dog" stuff? Sure, there's that joke about "on the internet nobody knows you're a dog." But when you're done laughing, stop to think a minute. Of course we can tell people from 'bots and dogs on the internet. We do it the same way we tell reasonable people from numbskulls--by their words. If a dog can read and write and type well enough to carry on a conversation on the internet are you seriously telling me you don't want to hear what that dog has to say?
Because, dude, move over. I want to hear from the dog.
One wonders what exactly Mr. Schmidt meant by "fake person."
A rape victim, for example? Would she be a fake person? How about a pro-democracy activist in China, or an atheist or a gay person in the rural American South? Would that be what Mr Schmidt meant by "fake people?" Or maybe Mr. Schmidt means poor people? Or minorities?
And how about that "rather than a dog" stuff? Sure, there's that joke about "on the internet nobody knows you're a dog." But when you're done laughing, stop to think a minute. Of course we can tell people from 'bots and dogs on the internet. We do it the same way we tell reasonable people from numbskulls--by their words. If a dog can read and write and type well enough to carry on a conversation on the internet are you seriously telling me you don't want to hear what that dog has to say?
Because, dude, move over. I want to hear from the dog.
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Date: 2011-08-29 12:12 pm (UTC)(Seriously, he does. All the interviews I've seen with him he fails at answering the questions asked worse than most politicians. I know computer programs -- heck, I've written computer programs -- which do better...)
I want to hear from that dog as well...
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