[Chapter-delegates] Great powers bring great responsibilities

[Victoriano Giralt]

I wish you do not find this to be off topic (I really need to vent).

There is a heated debate all over about censorship on the Internet and
giving those powers to entities like Google or Internet providers.

Well, today I have a clear example why this powers should not be on such
hands, and it is not even censorship ... but it has all the ingredients
to create a lot of harm to some tens of thousands of people.

The University of Málaga is a mid-sized University with about 35
thousand students, 5 thousand staff and about another thousand or so of
other kinds of community members.

Today, Google has found that there were two web servers among several
hundreds in our domain, and they have decided that the best way to
protect the internet is blocking the whole uma.es domain. It even does
not matter if the server name exists in DNS or not, you get a big red
screen warning about the site.

We are starting the term, so, there will be 35 thousand students trying
to register on Monday and instead getting red warnings.

There is no mail address or phone number to call for requesting a quick
correction. And their automated process say it will happen before "72
hours".

Censorship at its best.

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Victoriano Giralt                             CIO
                                              University of Malaga
+34952131415                                  SPAIN
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A: Yes.
> Q: Are you sure ?
>> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation.
>>> Q: Why is top posting annoying in email ?

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