That is true. A lot of the search costs for finding things have been obliterated. It used to be you could find a criminal record in the basement of city hall. The internet has obliterated that. People are concerned about the impact. What concerns me about the right to be forgotten is it has not been balanced with some of the other competing values such as the values of Free Expression and the benefit of the consumers right to know about things like whether a vendor has had bad reviews against them or a babysitter has had criminal offenses. These are things that people could request to be removed from search results and i think thats very anticonsumerist. Is this a shift in thinking with google from a stance that used to say we index the internet. If you have a problem with that, please consult the internet. To a stance that says, there are a lot of tricky things that need to be balanced and may have quibbles with a privately activated process where a person comes to google and maybe a
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As the far end of the pendulum it allows everybody to start from a position of we are going to work to keep openness as the basic principle and work act back from there with the exceptions. It sounds like you are saying, congress, keep up the good work. Just to put you on the record. Thanks so much for your enlightened legislation in the internet area. A senator from nebraska ended up being a visionary that he never expected to be. [laughter] you can layer on acceptable use policies, things that in the companys judgment like auctions that are prohibited. Sure. That has been from day one also. That was part of the protection of section 230 and 512 that provided for the ability for companies to exercise judgment and to get rid of things they believe are in the consumers interest. When theres been a conflict and commerce. Fake rolex watches, fake wetsuits watches being sold on ebay, is that settled now . I would say that the great copyright and trademark wars over the internet are not set
Thank you for joining us tonight. I am the government policy director at spur. It is my distinct pleasure to welcome such an amazing panel as well as the mayor of our fine city. This is the innovation mayor, mayor ed lee. [applause] thank you. Can everyone here me . Welcome to spur. I enjoy being here because every time i come here, some part of my brain wakes up that has not been woken up before. I am here to welcome you. Earlier, i had a wonderful opportunity to exchange with our Panel Members about what they are doing and how theyre doing it. I think these Panel Members are here as part of their own entrepreneurial spirit. They own companies but love the city. They know the spirit of the city is one of innovation, that invites peoples and views, and smashes them meshes them together to see if we can make an even better San Francisco. We have two other supervisors who may be coming later. Were all part of the initial group of policymakers at city hall who want to hear news views and
16,000 and we are still above it. Nicole petallides on the floor of the Stock Exchange. Nicole del 16,000, we saw the dow closing with its 40th record close of the year. 2013, certainly a monumental year for stocks, Dow Jones Industrial average 12. 5 points sitting at 16,023, points away, six points away from the alltime Record Record intraday high, we will be setting new highs, the nasdaq index in the with a up arrows, ticketing nasdaq up 1 3 and leaders on the dow like bowling, johnson and johnson, travelers and caterpillar as we watch the trend to the upside, this is our seventh straight week of gains assuming everything ends where it is. Connell we are always ahead of the game on markets now. Thanks nato may be the big word for next weekend if not we made it into that because beginning this weekend the elements are expected to come to get it to deliver a storm that will start with snow in dallas on tuesday which is already a big deal and disrupt all the important thanksgiving commu