"It's hard to determine how bad some of the less nasty communist regimes such as Cuba and Vietnam would have been without massive economic sanctions from the US"
Hahahahaha. Have you taken a good, long look at the U.S. recently (not via U.S. state-propoganda-driven media)?
Not to mention that it's about as sophisticated a response as you'd expect from a scalded 6 year old. "But Mummy, all the other boys were doing it too!!"
Understandable, considering the founders are enormously arrogant douchebags. If you stand on a podium and exude pure arrogance, people tend to enjoy watching you get thrown off it.
Assuming Google can perfectly balance a general purpose and highly complex system like this is naive or just plain disingenuous. The best they can do is penalize them on certain metrics and if that has other side effects, well, too f*cking bad.
What dumb logic. Rap Genius are just a piss in the ocean compared to all aggregate traffic. Making a statement that suggests "if you're big enough or we like you enough, you can cheat the system as much as you want" is infinitely more harmful in the long run.