Bob Blick wrote:
>> I think you would be very comfortable in China and Russia (and I guess
>> now,
>> Italy), where people are dragged into court or even arrested for posting
>> content the censors find "objectionable".
>
> I think you are getting a little too personally rude.

This sounds rather hypocritical, coming from a person who said:

"Afraid your Google stock is going down? "


> And it wasn't "censors". The kid did not give permission for the video.

The kid is not suing Google. "Permission" in this context smells of police 
state. I don't understand how you fail to see the absurdity of your 
argument. If I hijacked your phone, and called the FBI to tell them that I 
plan to kill the President, should the Secret Service investigate you, and 
put you on the watch list? If I glued a poster featuring child pornography* 
to the wall of your house while you were away, should you go to jail because 
you allowed your house to be used as a vehicle to deliver the illegal 
content?

*I'm sorry, I can't think of any other example because in the US the First 
Amendment protect's one's right to free speech, even if one chooses to use 
this right to paint a swastika on one's house, or publicly denie the 
Holocaust while wearing a Hitler Was Right t-shirt and waving a Nazi flag. 
(Yet you very rarely see people doing any of those things, and then only on 
TV -- but that's besides the point).


> I'm not arguing. I'm saying that moderation is a tool I have, and it
> does have some power. Just because it doesn't have absolute power, or it
> can't turn back time, doesn't mean it is completely ineffective. And
> it's my responsibility to monitor the list.

How does one become a moderator, anyway? IIRC you became one when you 
expressed your dissatisfaction with the then admin-in-charge. Can I become a 
moderator? What if I said "I *really* don't like how you are treating me, 
and I *hate* what you're doing to the PICList"? Would you resign?


> A disabled kid in Italy was being bullied and someone posted video of
> him to the internet, and you are defending it. Sorry, but there is
> absolutely no way I could possibly do that. I'd rather see Google fail.

You can fight your straw man all you want.

Vitaliy 

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