Re: Google and the South African Internet

On Fri, 11 Dec 2015 11:01:26 +0200
Liam Smit <[email protected]> wrote:
> I'd never heard of this until now... Talk about resurrecting a thread
> from dead...
> If you're unhappy about it then:
> 1.) Get MyBroadband to remove the forum post
> 2.) Get Google to remove the search result

the owner, [email protected] as well as the person who posted the
thread, is not interested in removing it, neither is anyone at
mybroadband.co.za

Google says that they will not remove it as it is free speech.

Legally, the main issue is not inaccurate, I was arrested.

Is it fair? lets say you, a private person, Liam Smit, is not liked by
Sunday Times and you are pulled over for a normal routine traffic
stop...

Is it cool for the Sunday Times to run front page, for MANY MANY YEARS
IN THE FUTURE: "Liam Smit pulled over by Police and then just that you
were pulled over, that nobody likes you and that all Ford drivers suck
eggs"

Just because they can?

Thing is Liam, until something bad/evil/unfair actually happens to you,
you will nto really appreciate this.

Imagine trying to gain a small contract so that you can buy food for
your 4 year old little girl and 9 year old boy and you are told "sorry,
we do not want you to do the work because the police arrested you" 

Bias. 

It is normal - I would not hire myself either.



>On Fri, 11 Dec 2015 09:08:00 +0200
>Andre Coetzee <[email protected]> wrote:
> When I search my name on Google.com the 5th result is this:
> 
> http://mybroadband.co.za/vb/showthread.php/400259-Arrest-of-Internet-Personality-Andre-Coetzee
> 
> I was arrested in 2012 at my address and held for three days by the SA
> Police for refusing to pay a bribe to a police officer.
> 
> The 'official' reason for my arrest inside a building at my address is
> "refusing to provide my address to a police officer"
> 
> Charges which were quite obviously withdrawn as we still have a
> seemingly/sometimes functional legal system.
> 
> and, other charges were of course made, etc, etc.
> 
> Now go read the rubbish that 'mybroadband.co.za'/internet community
> publishes and http://google.com promotes as 'fact' or even closely
> relevant.
> 
> Maybe I should have simply paid the bribe, the cop only wanted a few
> thousand rands as he confused me with someone else to begin with.
> Anyway, I digress.
> 
> It is the contributions that everyone, including civil society, makes
> to South Africa that shapes what it is.
> 
> Google views "mybroadband.co.za" as a "news" website and as seemingly
> has vast popular support by the community (including you) that
> represents the South African Internet.
> 
> meanwhile, the truth is that 'mybroadband.co.za" is obviously not a
> "real" news website.
> 
> But, you, the South African Internet users, and GOOGLE strongly
> supports this "website" for some unknown reason?
> 
> The result of this 'trust" is that; 
> 
> Every time I meet someone new or try to do new business I find myself
> having to explain the post and thread on mybroadband.co.za
> 
> I have nothing to do with mybroadband.co.za or that thread, except
> responding to it and subsequently deleting any account that I had
> there
> 
> On the South African Internet we will either follow the Chinese model
> of running a type of intranet or the Russian model, the European
> model (which protects private people and privacy - and the sh1t
> published by this 'mybroadband' and marketed by Google.com about an
> "internet personality' (wtf??) will never fly.
> 
> But maybe South Africans like the idea of an Intranet (like China) or
> security cops like Russia? or what?
> 
> Andre
> 
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