Daily Archives: 4 April 2016

Climatista Madness

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Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D, RI) is at it again, it seems.

Whitehouse has apparently decided that if he can’t persuade the general public to adopt his climate absolutism, at least he can use the controversy to motivate his deep-pocketed partisans.

This week a recipient shared with us an email sent out on Tuesday by the Senator’s re-election campaign. The subject line: “Standing up to the WSJ.”

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His email consists of a description of what he portrays as his brave and lonely stand against the terrible abuse he is taking from fearsome foes, including “the Wall Street Journal editorial page, as well as various less-well-known blogs, fronts and just plain cranks.”

Am I one of those less-well-known blogs, now in the same class as The Wall Street Journal?

Nah.  Prolly not.  Prolly just one of those plain cranks.

Censorship

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…and cowardice?

France’s privacy regulator, known as CNIL [National Commission for Computing and Liberties], last week fined Google €100,000 ($112,000) for not applying Europe’s “right to be forgotten” across the search engine’s global network of sites.

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Now Paris contends that only a world-wide scrub will do. “For people residing in France to effectively exercise their right to be delisted, it must be applied to the entire processing operation,” the regulator says.  If it stands, this ruling would compel Google to remove links globally.

Aside from simple free speech questions in the land of Voltaire, this

limits the ability of non-Europeans to vet French prospective business associates or German job applicants.

To say nothing of the sovereignty of nations outside of France.  Or CNIL is saying the whole world is part of Metropolitan France.

This whole smelly affair should make it…difficult…to do business in France, for Google and for those non-Europeans.

Google says they’ll appeal, but then what?  Will they have the courage to ignore this idiocy, this arrogant power grab outside French borders?