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Amazing they have the gall to think they still can arbiter truth, considering how YouTube up until recently was banning the "conspiracy theory" that the recent pandemic may have originated from a Wuhan Lab... Something that now all the experts are saying may actually be true.
My wife gets a gdrive share ~5x/day from strangers filled with xxx material. Maybe related/
I have an abusive ex who regularly still sends me stuff by sharing it on Google Drive. Google will not block it as it doesn't meet their standard of harassment, and even if they did, it often comes from a new account.
Google Drive is now widely used as a social media platform -- I even get spam from google drive share notifications now! And so I'm sure they will stumble in all the ways that all the platforms do around content moderation.
This is not just Google Drive, this is a policy across many of their services (Drive, Docs, Sheets, Slides, Forms, and new Sites). Holy smokes... I think it's time to finally dump Google services for me.
Their definition of misleading says it "includes information [...] that contradicts official government records". Because no government record has ever been wrong before, right?
Misleading title. Google Drive bans *sharing* "Misleading Content," which means they can disable sharing if a doc containing blatant misinformation starts to be widely shared on other platforms. (Edit: This doesn't mean they'll go into your drive and remove doubleplusungood content) Google Drive is now widely used as a social media platform -- I even get spam from google drive share notifications now! And so I'm sure…