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Re: Google Drive bans distribution of “misleading content”

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The road to hell is paved with "good intentions". We desperately need to find a globally adoptable alternative to google and the services that it provides. Docs, Sheets, Drive, etc. are fantastic services in that they work really well on a massive scale. However, Google's increasing role as an arbiter of right vs wrong and a steward of information puts too much power into the hands of one corporation, whose best inte…

I think there's a vacuum here in that society wants someone to intervene when Bad Things Happen, but we either can't agree who that should be or (more likely IMO) the right choice of person/organization just doesn't exist. So you end up with some people/organizations/governments stepping up to increase their power and/or protect their own interests.

I think this is why Zuckerberg and some other big players have called for laws to regulate these things, which seems counterintuitive, but then FB can pass the buck and is more likely to maintain the status quo where they're on top. But until they are more insulated from the risks, they're going to be forced to defend themselves.

Disclaimer: I too work for Google

Re: Google Drive bans distribution of “misleading content”

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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.

It isn't a conspiracy.

It is a fact.

There are official government funding records of Fauci shipping money not just to the North Carolina lab but directly to Wuhan.

There are official government funding records of Fauci explicitly funding "gain of function" research a.k.a., bio-weapons.

Fauci needs to FUCKING HANG.

Google is hardcore fascist.

Re: Google Drive bans distribution of “misleading content”

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This is like watching someone (tech companies) wrap a rope around his neck while standing on a ladder. HEY HOLD MY BEER! Its all fun and games when an administration "in charge" has your back.

It's going to be 100% different the day that changes. It's almost like people forget the pendulum of leadership in the US has a well known tendency to swing.

Don't get me wrong, in principal I can get behind the idea of this but at the same time I don't think I'd feel comfortable with any actual implementation of the idea let alone the people in charge of the implementation. In my own personal view I feel like the harm done by people publishing stupid bullshit online is vastly outweighed by what amounts to government backed methods to cull publishing stupid bullshit online.

This cure is worse than the disease in my opinion.

Re: Google Drive bans distribution of “misleading content”

#134
The very idea of corporations deciding on what is correct thought should shake people to the core regardless of ideology. Some might come up with hair-splitting justifications but this will come back to bite all of us and we let it happen. I'd bet the bank on it.

Re: Google Drive bans distribution of “misleading content”

#135

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.

Why pretend that there hasn't been loads of fake harmful covid misinformation over the last year? The conspiracy theorists have not been vindicated, or are you taking hydroxychloroquine?

Re: Google Drive bans distribution of “misleading content”

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Related: @BreesAnna First time I’ve seen a cloud drive blocking a document... It was a very long document re vaccination headlines from around the world. https://twitter.com/BreesAnna/status/1384763150109716481

Sundar needs to step the fuck down.

Re: Google Drive bans distribution of “misleading content”

#137

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.

Why is conspiracy theory in quotes? It was a conspiracy theory, peddled by conspiracy theorists, and laundered into the public discourse by conservative media outlets. One of many dozen such claims about COVID-19. A broken clock is right twice a day (in this case the clock is probably still wrong).

No, it was a theory that millions of people thought was the most likely possibility. Those people were silenced on Youtube/Twitter etc.

Re: Google Drive bans distribution of “misleading content”

#139

The road to hell is paved with "good intentions". We desperately need to find a globally adoptable alternative to google and the services that it provides. Docs, Sheets, Drive, etc. are fantastic services in that they work really well on a massive scale. However, Google's increasing role as an arbiter of right vs wrong and a steward of information puts too much power into the hands of one corporation, whose best inte…

Uh "good intentions"? I think you mean "ruling class lackeys"

Re: Google Drive bans distribution of “misleading content”

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Drive is a storage service.. I don't expect Google to moderate any of my content, as long as it is legal.

This is about _distribution_.

No. It's about fascism and pushing a politicol agenda that has destroyed millions of people's jobs, livelihoods, out-right MURDERED people all to take out orange man.

Stop being a fucking tool.

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