The Pop Culture Information Society...
These are the messages that have been posted on inthe00s over the past few years.
Check out the messageboard archive index for a complete list of topic areas.
This archive is periodically refreshed with the latest messages from the current messageboard.
Check for new replies or respond here...
Subject: Google removes Uluru virtual walk from Street View
Written By: Philip Eno on 09/24/20 at 7:16 am
Google has removed images on Street View that allowed people to virtually walk to the summit of Uluru, in Australia's Northern Territory. Parks Australia had requested user-generated images from the sacred site be immediately removed. And Google said it had removed them as soon as it had been alerted. Uluru was closed to visitors a year ago at the request of the indigenous Anangu people, to whom the Australian government returned ownership in 1985. Once better-known internationally as Ayers Rock, it is linked to many traditional stories of the Anangu. Google's Street View function provides 360-degree images of different environments, alongside people's own pictures.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-54279229
Subject: Re: Google removes Uluru virtual walk from Street View
Written By: Don Carlos on 09/24/20 at 10:03 am
Google has removed images on Street View that allowed people to virtually walk to the summit of Uluru, in Australia's Northern Territory. Parks Australia had requested user-generated images from the sacred site be immediately removed. And Google said it had removed them as soon as it had been alerted. Uluru was closed to visitors a year ago at the request of the indigenous Anangu people, to whom the Australian government returned ownership in 1985. Once better-known internationally as Ayers Rock, it is linked to many traditional stories of the Anangu. Google's Street View function provides 360-degree images of different environments, alongside people's own pictures.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-54279229
I read about this somewhere else. Seems the tourists were making a bloody mess up there and have been banned
Subject: Re: Google removes Uluru virtual walk from Street View
Written By: Elor on 09/24/20 at 11:08 am
I always found it highly disrespectful of people to climb Uluru. It is a holy place to the Aboriginals and should be respected as such.
Check for new replies or respond here...
Copyright 1995-2020, by Charles R. Grosvenor Jr.