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Re: Google: Too Sleazy for the Street?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jennifer Heise)
Wed Jun 23 20:03:39 2004
Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2004 09:07:49 -0400
From: Jennifer Heise <jahb@LEHIGH.EDU>
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J. Wyatt Ehrenfels wrote:
> Google: Too Sleazy for the Street?
>
> Google provides access to UseNet under their own
> branding ("Google Groups") so innocent people wander
> into these unmoderated "news groups," where they
> become targets of all manner of stalking by
> belligerents with criminal and psychiatric histories
> (or nothing else to do with their time). Google
> refuses to take responsibility for modifying,
> moderating, or monitoring even its own presentation of
> these posts.
Just in case anyone missed it, Mr. Ehrenfels for some reason is
searching Google Groups for his website, and holds Google responsible
for the content of Usenet. For those of who have been around long enough
to recognize a troll when we see one...
(Mr. Ehrenfels has no citations in PsycInfo, Gale's Expanded Academic
Index, Proquest's ABI Inform or Research Library.)
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