[179302] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Fixing Google geolocation screwups
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Colin Johnston)
Wed Apr 8 08:36:38 2015
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From: Colin Johnston <colinj@gt86car.org.uk>
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Date: Wed, 8 Apr 2015 13:36:29 +0100
To: Tim Franklin <tim@pelican.org>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
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Globalisation only works if network abuse and network contacts follow =
best practice and engage.
Else trade blocks and network country blocks are done and remain in =
place until certain countries ethically/practically do the right thing.
Colin
> On 8 Apr 2015, at 13:17, Tim Franklin <tim@pelican.org> wrote:
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>> That all said: Restricting content based on location is complete and
>> utter nonsense in 2015. The world is global, people want to pay for
>> content and the content owners just don't allow people to pay for it.
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> Globalisation is for your corporate lords and masters to buy labour =
and raw materials where they're cheap.
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> If mere peons try to buy goods and services in the same way, expect to =
be crushed by the best legislation money can buy :(
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> Regards,
> Tim.
