Google is now applying its coronavirus misinformation policies to personal files
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Re: Google is now applying its coronavirus misinformation policies to personal files
#2what does "take down" mean ? did they turn off public sharing or delete the file ?
Why anyone would trust a corporation with their only copy of anything is mystifying to me anyway.
Re: Google is now applying its coronavirus misinformation policies to personal files
#3This is gross and unethical but we should let them continue digging their own grave.
Re: Google is now applying its coronavirus misinformation policies to personal files
#4It's 1984 in 2020 all over again.
Paging Mr. Orwell...
Re: Google is now applying its coronavirus misinformation policies to personal files
#5This is crossing a very bad line, and is absolutely unacceptable.
My company of about 50 people on G-Suite will be canceling our subscription and moving to Office 365 within the next three months. We had discussed it in the past due to their history of flagrant disregard for the security and privacy standards we require, but this has galvanized the conversation and we're prioritizing it on the near-term now.
I'm sure we'll eventually discover that Microsoft has similar policies, and that there isn't any good option when it comes to putting sensitive data on another company's servers. Maybe we'll eventually need to self-host more system capabilities. But, we'll cross that bridge when we get to it.
Re: Google is now applying its coronavirus misinformation policies to personal files
#6Further proof that when you upload a file to Google Drive, you don’t own that file, they do
Re: Google is now applying its coronavirus misinformation policies to personal files
#7Wouldn't be surprised if this results in a Streissand effect.
Re: Google is now applying its coronavirus misinformation policies to personal files
#8I did not expect to see platform censorship accelerate at this rate. It always seems to be government and media dictating the terms of the censorship as well, which should be very concerning.
Re: Google is now applying its coronavirus misinformation policies to personal files
#9what does "take down" mean ? did they turn off public sharing or delete the file ? Why anyone would trust a corporation with their only copy of anything is mystifying to me anyway.
It's somewhat unclear, though further down it says this
>Google blocked access to the document.
It's still somewhat unclear to me though.
Re: Google is now applying its coronavirus misinformation policies to personal files
#10what does "take down" mean ? did they turn off public sharing or delete the file ? Why anyone would trust a corporation with their only copy of anything is mystifying to me anyway.
Since they didn't say delete I'm guessing they stopped the public sharing but that isn't as rage inducing so the article stuck to using "take down" hoping people would interpret it as delete.