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Wed Jan-12-05 07:42 PM
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Should amputees be offended by prosthetics? |
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Edited on Wed Jan-12-05 07:45 PM by kdsusa
I was browsing blogs today when I saw an entry on jeffandjanice.com regarding Google's policy of not allowing their ads to appear on websites for people with disabilities. Am I wrong, or is this really crappy?
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Wed Jan-12-05 07:45 PM
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1. How Would Amputees Walk Without Prosthetics? |
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Wed Jan-12-05 07:46 PM
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2. If they lost an arm, they'd walk just fine :) |
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Wed Jan-12-05 07:49 PM
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3. what if they lost a leg? |
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Wed Jan-12-05 07:50 PM
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4. No amputees are not offended by prosthetics. |
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Wed Jan-12-05 07:54 PM
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5. Well yeah, but my point was |
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Edited on Wed Jan-12-05 07:56 PM by kdsusa
Why should Google feel obligated to protect disabled people from information about disabilities?
Edit: I visited the site in question. It's not an informative site, but the question still applies.
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Wed Jan-12-05 07:56 PM
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6. this is a google policy? |
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this sounds fishy, ya might want to dbl chk with google on this.
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Thu Jan-13-05 10:17 AM
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11. I doubt they'd discuss it with me. Confidentiality, and all eom |
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Wed Jan-12-05 08:26 PM
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7. Apparently this is a real-time conflict |
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I visited the site again, and it's being updated.
Gotta go. I've got to watch my DVDs so I can send them back to netflix
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Wed Jan-12-05 08:38 PM
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8. There are deaf people who are offended by cochlear implants... |
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so I would guess that it's possible.
Then again, the guy that I saw on the TV show was born deaf, so that might not be a perfect analogy. I think his reasoning was that his genetics caused him to be deaf and he was what he was - why mess with it? I remember that he was very much against his child (also born deaf) getting implants. The closest that I could relate to it was immigrant parents wanting their children to retain the culture of the "Old Country."
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Wed Jan-12-05 10:00 PM
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9. I've never understood that |
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I guess you'd have to be deaf to really understand it. It's like paraplegics not wanting to walk.
But who am to judge?
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Wed Jan-12-05 10:27 PM
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I'll form a viable opinion once I'm faced with the situation - until then, I'm officially on the fence and listening to the people who are on both sides...
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