Comments on: Google's blockade of PinkNews.co.uk leaves unanswered questions http://www.pinknews.co.uk/news/articles/2005-11372.html/ PinkNews.co.uk Gay News (UK and world) from Pink News - all the gay news for the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered community in the UK and beyond- thegaynews from Pink News Tue, 24 Nov 2009 02:26:20 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Adrian Masters http://www.pinknews.co.uk/news/articles/2005-11372.html/comment-page-1/#comment-44847 Adrian Masters Fri, 27 Feb 2009 16:37:46 +0000 http://www.pinknews.co.uk/news/articles/2005-11372.html#comment-44847 Sue Google for all losses, google is responsible for ALL losses, and must be held responsible, at court, as google is NOT the cyberpolice, nor is entitled to block sites on its own decision! Only authorities can and should be allowed to block sites, based on court decisions, and not privately owned entities with possible exterior motives, like fi competition! I think it is unacceptable that one org can be deciding about blocking a site! Sue Google for all losses, google is responsible for ALL losses, and must be held responsible, at court, as google is NOT the cyberpolice, nor is entitled to block sites on its own decision!
Only authorities can and should be allowed to block sites, based on court decisions, and not privately owned entities with possible exterior motives, like fi competition!
I think it is unacceptable that one org can be deciding about blocking a site!

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]]> By: Kirat http://www.pinknews.co.uk/news/articles/2005-11372.html/comment-page-1/#comment-44782 Kirat Thu, 26 Feb 2009 19:22:04 +0000 http://www.pinknews.co.uk/news/articles/2005-11372.html#comment-44782 Just a guess, but probably try to look into the ads that are on the web page. I was quite frustrated at not being able to read PinkNews (as I do quite often), though my frustration was lifted just a tad when I remembered the same thing happening to another site I was rather fond of. The culprit on the other site happened to be an ad on the pages. Some advertisers tend to take advantage of carpet-bombing exploits (placing files on computers without the users' intention). This is, sadly, not an isolated issue, as many websites have had ads on the page that express malicious intent on unsuspecting users.. If it wasn't an ad, then I'm clueless. Oh and, glad to have the site back to normal! Just a guess, but probably try to look into the ads that are on the web page.
I was quite frustrated at not being able to read PinkNews (as I do quite often), though my frustration was lifted just a tad when I remembered the same thing happening to another site I was rather fond of.
The culprit on the other site happened to be an ad on the pages. Some advertisers tend to take advantage of carpet-bombing exploits (placing files on computers without the users' intention).
This is, sadly, not an isolated issue, as many websites have had ads on the page that express malicious intent on unsuspecting users..

If it wasn't an ad, then I'm clueless.
Oh and, glad to have the site back to normal!

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