Comment by stanleydrew

16 years ago

I grant you the distinction. Now can you please explain why it's important and how Google failing to understand it is the cause of all this.

I just wrote a long-ish hypothetical further up the thread.

And you know what? Maybe you're right. Maybe Google DOES understand this just fine. But I think the strong language they're using, the bombastic language of "fairness" and "protectionism", implies that they are taking a subtle, nuanced issue of data ownership and pretending it's binary.