[Novalug] [OT] Google takes heat for using pre-Katrina imagery
b b
linux_author@yahoo.com
Sat Mar 31 21:10:01 EDT 2007
- note that any imagery of coastal Mississippi and
Alabama will show excellent progress of
reconstruction, rebuilding of local industry, and
return of an indigenous population...
- OTOH, NOLA continues to languish...
- one has to wonder why?
p.s. Google should tell Congress to pound sand...
--- Alan McConnell <alan@patriot.net> wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 31, 2007 at 07:34:33PM -0400, Pete
> Nuwayser wrote:
> >
>
http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/03/31/katrina.google.maps.ap/index.html
> >
> > In a nutshell: Google had at one point updated
> their maps of New
> > Orleans and other areas affected by Katrina with
> imagery showing the
> > damage. Later, they put the pre-Katrina imagery
> back. Now a House
> > subcommittee is calling them to the carpet over
> it, saying that Google
> > is doing a "great injustice by airbrushing
> history."
> >
> > I find this move on the House's part strange,
> annoying and ridiculous.
> > First of all, Google may be a very popular
> Internet service, but
> > they're still free to put whatever content up they
> want. They are not
> > a utility or government-regulated service.
> Pete, you are very ready to jump on the Congress
> for getting
> after Google. But I would first ask: why did
> Google switch
> from a depiction of the present state of affairs --
> which AFAIK
> continues shamefully bad -- to a pre-Katrina
> depiction. (I too
> was once handsome, with a full head of hair and no
> pot; but I'd
> be foolish and mendacious if I depicted myself that
> way now,
> no?)
>
> So let's find out first who leaned on Google to
> airbrush history.
> This is probably not ascertainable. After this
> determination
> we can judge who is more culpable, the interests
> who leaned
> on Google, or the Congress which is making a stink.
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Alan
>
> --
> Alan McConnell : http://patriot.net/users/alan
> There are many good Impeachment sites; one of
> the best is:
> www.waifllc.org
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