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Comment by tejaswiy | Hacker News Reader

Just. Wow. Mind boggling amounts of stupidity.

"In the second meeting with the same executives in late November, Mr. Sibal told them that he expected them to use human beings to screen content, not technology, the executive said.

The three executives said Mr. Sibal has told these companies that he expects them to set up a proactive prescreening system, with staffers looking for objectionable content and deleting it before it is posted."

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It is funny how much people who don't contribute to the world think they get to tell other people what to do.

Lamar Smith, one of the sponsors of SOPA, told Google something similar. That it should be possible for Google to hire some high-school kids to keep piracy under control on their search engine.

I agree. As much as I disagree with Ayn Rand on some things, she certainly disliked uselessness as much as I do. I can't help but wonder if certain aspects of her future's government in Atlas Shrugged is the natural end stage of a government.

You don't have to be a fan of miss rand to believe that politicians shouldn't live high while the people who make their food suffer.

I wish if Google and FB said, " Sorry Sibal we don't censor results , if u insist we would leave!" Though its not viable , it will scare the politicians.

Oh, so they are simply working on fixing unemployment problem in India! :)

Maybe they actually think it's realistic to hire a couple of million people to screen online content. After all, they have more than a billion people, and they also have extensive experience with their outsourced call centers.

You do realize that not all of India, especially its politicians, are involved in call center activities, correct? I hope you also realize that life in India doesn't revolve around call centers, even though that's the most contact with India many westerners have.

Of course I understand that call centers make up only a tiny part of the Indian economy. But I can certainly imagine these politicians thinking, "Wouldn't it be really easy for Google and Facebook to hire a few thousand people here in India (who know the language, culture, etc.) to monitor the web in real time?" Hiring human censors would be completely unrealistic in countries like the United States, but maybe it doesn't sound so far-fetched in countries with low wages and a large population.

Do you understand that a country with a large population will also have a large amount of user-generated content? It is not people with low wages, but court of law which should have the power to decide what content is inflammatory. The meaning of freedom and democracy doesn't vary with amount of population.

> It is not people with low wages, but court of law which should have the power to decide what content is inflammatory

I completely agree with you. It's Mr. Sibal who seems to think that human censors are not only a good idea but also realistic.

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