Posted on 09/04/2020 7:02:57 AM PDT by CharlesOConnell
Force Google to Share its Monopolized Data (API) as a Public Commons. Google can't "own" the data in its database, that is intellectual property belonging to its content creators of all sizes, most small, average writers, thinkers and artists. Dr. Robert Epstein, testifying before the U.S. Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution on June 16, 2019, advocated the most equitable solution, for the U.S. Government to mirror AT&T's 1956 anti-monopoly Consent Decree sharing its technical patents with all other companies free of charge, resulting in vastly increased technical development and economic prosperity. Ask President Trump to force Google to share the data it has monopolized, (its API, its Application Program Interface), with all other search engines, even the smallest, so that the world doesn't permanently fall under the shadow of Google's tyrannical content viewpoint discrimination and political manipulation capable of altering election results and skewing government power to serve only an elite minority.
An API is not data. Data is not an API.
An API is the interface by which you manipulate data.
In other words, if this was a candy bar, your petition is demanding that Google hand over the wrapper. This is dumb.
Dr. Epstein may be dumb, as I am, but his wife died “mysteriously” after he was warned that they were after him. The “dumb” people are the ones who do most of history, despite the bling of tyrants and billionaires.
Not touching that with a 1000 meter pole, just commenting that the very core of this petition was written by some idiot that doesn’t have any idea what they’re talking about with regards to a computer. There are normal 8 year old children who know what an API is better than the writer of this crap.
Put yet another way, if Google was a cereal company, you just asked them to surrender the shrinkwrap around the pallet of cereal boxes. And the pallet. Google can keep or sell the rest. So you get the part that gives you nothing and Google gets to keep the important bits. Again, the technical demand of the petition is fundamentally incorrect and stupid.
Talking to yourself much? (Your reply was from yourself to yourself.)
If you know what an API is, why did you post a petition that on its face is demanding an API, thinking it was data?
Psst - by trade I am an IT consultant who is not infrequently deposed by lawyers as well as testifying in court from time to time. So, yes, my experience and knowledge *does* count with the high priced lawyers.
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If I pull data from any given public source into a database, and use that data to do “stuff”, you have no right to the database, nor the algorithms and processes that made it possible.
I wrote the software, created the database, and executed it on hardware I paid for.
If you want to go after Google for being evil, there are other ways to do it.
There’s a lot of ignorance going on here. I’ve had my share of parsing stuff that sent people to jail for non-trivial durations.
Well, that *was* why I posted the ‘That’s not how any of this works’ meme up there. :P
Whoever wrote it doesn’t know how computers work let alone intellectual property works.
One better way to do it would be to enforce actual net neutrality against them - no censuring any non-violent and legal political material.
Was this just product placement for Diet Coke?
I work in IT and I think it is a really good idea.
Thank you for posting this.
At least we’re talking. Non-ad-hominem-attack position statements reflect quiet self-confidence.
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