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Offline AlligatorDicax

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Googles scaryily fast attention to CathInfo
« on: March 29, 2013, 09:31:24 AM »
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  • In an originally-technical topic "Advice about a new computer", which had wide digressions into the nєω ωσrℓ∂ σr∂єr, a sequence of 2 follow-ups deserved more attention:

    Quote from: Pelly (Mar 28, 2013, 9:43 am)
    Do not buy Acer, it supports the gαy agenda.

    Quote from: rcentros ([Mar 28, 2013, 4:37 pm)
    I have trouble believing a Taiwanese company would get involved with "PC" social issues. This seems to be more of an American and "Euro" thing. And, when I do a Google search for "Acer supports gαy agenda" (without the quotes), the results come back to CathInfo and your post.

    Whoa!  That's scarily fast crawling of the Web: Less than 5 hours latency (9:43 am--4:37 pm) in a really huge cyberplace.  Is there any reason to believe that CathInfo has been chosen for, um, special attention?

    What if there were some way for an employer to arrange special monitoring for your postings by Internet-forum user-names?  Employers can already run periodic searches on employees of interest; but what if instead, the employer could arrange to be notified by the search-engine?  Alas, there already is.  If Google doesn't provide such a product, it could be written as a custom 'Web-client program', paid for by the employer (possibly with a fee paid regularly to Google, for out-of-the-ordinary access to its search data).

    Just imagine an employer that's eager to be in the vanguard of secular social policy, and possible reactions to discovering religious images in your cubicle or office.  Maybe so discreet that they'd been noticed only after complaints from busybody employees?  Might there be a suspicion that you dissented from official corporate or organizational philosophies or policies? You could make a politically incorrect posting in the morning from home before work, and find yourself fired, under various pretexts, before the afternoon was over.  It'd probably be especially easy for an employer to do if you worked in customer-service or human-resources (i.e., the dept. formerly known as 'personnel'), e.g.: "Written violation of diversity policies previously agreed to in writing".

    Thanks for the unintended lesson that one should never reveal her/his various Internet-forum user-names to an employer.  And perhaps others out there should ponder whether it's really prudent to post on nonwork-related topics from one's work-place, where they're legally justified (in the U.S.A.) in monitoring Internet traffic.


    Offline PerEvangelicaDicta

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    Googles scaryily fast attention to CathInfo
    « Reply #1 on: March 29, 2013, 09:43:15 AM »
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  • This is very interesting.  There have been many times i've googled (prefer https Startpage with proxy) a topic discussed on this forum and the google search provides this forum in it's aggregate search quite quickly.
    i never gave it much thought until now.  I really must studiously stop using google altogether.


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    « Reply #2 on: March 29, 2013, 09:45:44 AM »
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  • I did a search on the topic "Paleo diet and Communion" in Hungarian, and my blog came up first. Not a new thing but keep in mind that many Tradcat sites and organizations were listed as "hate groups" by the SPLC.