Statistics professor at Columbia and Georgetown banned from all Google services
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Re: Statistics professor at Columbia and Georgetown banned from all Google services
#2http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-08-21/one-statistics-prof...
"Have worked with both the Obama administration and advised on polling statistics for the Trump campaign"
as Joseph Stalin said - "no one is innocent". just have to dig deep enough.
Re: Statistics professor at Columbia and Georgetown banned from all Google services
#3Contrary to some of the other comments, I highly doubt there's any political agenda at play here. More likely, this user inadvertently tripped some automated algorithm somewhere, and then failed the automated appeals process.
That said, it's their service and their rules. Don't host data you care about on free services run by capricious multinationals.
Re: Statistics professor at Columbia and Georgetown banned from all Google services
#4http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-08-21/one-statistics-prof... "Have worked with both the Obama administration and advised on polling statistics for the Trump campaign " as Joseph Stalin said - "no one is innocent". just have to dig deep enough.
What's your claim?
Re: Statistics professor at Columbia and Georgetown banned from all Google services
#5http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-08-21/one-statistics-prof... "Have worked with both the Obama administration and advised on polling statistics for the Trump campaign " as Joseph Stalin said - "no one is innocent". just have to dig deep enough.
Both working with the Obama administration and advising the Trump campaign on polling statistics are innocent activities...?
Re: Statistics professor at Columbia and Georgetown banned from all Google services
#6Our email accounts are widely considered the gateway to all of our other services, particularly in light of the ability to reset passwords with access to the account's address.
It is for this reason that we consider email account security of paramount importance, and Google's early implementation of Google Authenticator, U2F token support, etc, is admirable.
But now we have entered an era in which we need to consider the capricious, political whims of our email providers as a significant part of our threat model.
Re: Statistics professor at Columbia and Georgetown banned from all Google services
#7Contrary to some of the other comments, I highly doubt there's any political agenda at play here. More likely, this user inadvertently tripped some automated algorithm somewhere, and then failed the automated appeals process. That said, it's their service and their rules. Don't host data you care about on free services run by capricious multinationals.
Given the importance of email and other online services - should multinational corporations be allowed to be capricious about who they provide service to, and how those users are cut off from their digital lifeline?
Re: Statistics professor at Columbia and Georgetown banned from all Google services
#8Contrary to some of the other comments, I highly doubt there's any political agenda at play here. More likely, this user inadvertently tripped some automated algorithm somewhere, and then failed the automated appeals process. That said, it's their service and their rules. Don't host data you care about on free services run by capricious multinationals.
Given the importance of email and other online services - should multinational corporations be allowed to be capricious about who they provide service to, and how those users are cut off from their digital lifeline?
Yes, because it's their computers.
Re: Statistics professor at Columbia and Georgetown banned from all Google services
#9"If you show probability work like Hillary having lower election odds, then this is new definition of hate speech."
I get that the guy is angry. I would be too if I got locked out of my accounts, but this is a ludicrous accusation -- the new definition of hate speech?
"Never attribute to malice what can be explained by stupidity." The idea that google is waging war on this guy because of election predictions he made 12 months ago is absurd on the face of it.
Our society has been completely taken over by Hofstadter's [paranoid style](https://harpers.org/archive/1964/11/the-paranoid-style-in-am...). Everything is taken as evidence of some vast conspiracy of fascists or communists. (A couple weeks ago there was an article posted here alleging that google was suppressing anti-communist websites.)
Replace "freemasons" or "international bankers" with "social justice warriors" and we're right back in the 1950's again.
Re: Statistics professor at Columbia and Georgetown banned from all Google services
#10http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-08-21/one-statistics-prof... "Have worked with both the Obama administration and advised on polling statistics for the Trump campaign " as Joseph Stalin said - "no one is innocent". just have to dig deep enough.
Both working with the Obama administration and advising the Trump campaign on polling statistics are innocent activities...?
Im not sure what you're trying to imply. No one needs to be completely innocent. And no one is.
What's preposterous is shutting someone down for merely showing some statistical evidence of something contrary to a particular narrative