@mollydotcom In the same way that "CAUTION" tape helps prevent people from falling down open manholes.
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@mollydotcom In the SmartScreen case, the default is that kids' accounts cannot bypass the warnings.
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@mollydotcom You could argue, as some do, that browsers shouldn't allow click-through to known malicious sites...
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@mollydotcom ...but almost all have weighed it and taken the other route, for a number of solid reasons.
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We've come to an interesting crossroads I think, @ericlaw - where security and policy are in conflict. Neither of us is wrong. What's right?
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@ericlaw I never said chrome was enforcing censorship. I said it was blocking the Open Web. I stand by my statement and I have no influence.
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@mollydotcom In your FB post, you say warning is "Google is [...] not allowing YOU to participate in what MIGHT BE illegal file sharing."
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@mollydotcom Make the case that the ideals of the "Open Web" are advanced by allowing malicious sites to hijack browsers seems ... tricky.
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@mollydotcom Why am I passionate about accuracy here? Because one day, Google *is* going to get a lot of pressure to do this in Chrome...
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@mollydotcom ... and if the response is: "Well, people already think we're doing this..." Everyone loses.
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I prefer open guidelines BY global representatives long before that which is done FOR. That's my soapbox and on it I proudly slip. /@ericlaw
Jul 12, 2015 路 9:16 PM UTC