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Re: Google Drive bans distribution of “misleading content”

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Post by floatingatoll »

semitones wrote: post #153
floatingatoll wrote: post #110

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's on the front page right now, but I'm not sure it deserves to be given the quality of HN's discussion so far. The top ten highest voted comments are essentially redundant copies of the same outrage, stated slightly differently. If everyone is just going to pile on and state how upset they are, instead of replying to each other's comments and keeping one thread for all the outrage, what's the point in bringing thi…

Why don't you be the change you want to see, and contribute constructively with your own opinion to facilitate curious and interesting discussion? Complaining about it is also not that interesting.

I am. Meta-commenting about HN is a constructive contribution to both the quality of site and, in some instances, leads to quality contributions within a specific discussion as well. The site admin 'dang' certainly does a lot more of it than I do, and regularly links to his own past meta-commentaries, so while I respect that they're uninteresting to you, I disagree.

Re: Google Drive bans distribution of “misleading content”

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Post by [deleted] »

_ea1k wrote: post #96
drew-y wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Saying "all the experts" think it may actually be true is a big stretch. It's far more accurate to say that the experts haven't ruled it out. But they still think natural origin is far more likely[1]. [1] https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-01529-3

He should not have used the word all, but this feels like a really pedantic point to me. The main thing is that there is no consensus that it didn't get created that way.

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Re: Google Drive bans distribution of “misleading content”

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Post by Jiro »

tablespoon wrote: post #152
lettergram wrote: post #143

Interesting... so I wrote a wrote an article on gun violence https://austingwalters.com/firearms-by-the-numbers/ Guess it contradicts the official position of the current administration (not reality). So will my drive content be removed? Similarly, I have been monitoring the CDC change the covid19 deaths rate over time. https://austingwalters.com/changes-in-the-cdc-counts-of-deat... It appears the CDC had been inaccu…

> Guess it contradicts the official position of the current administration (not reality). So will my drive content be removed? Below is the actual policy. What term do you think your blog post violates? > Do not distribute content that deceives, misleads, or confuses users. This includes: > Misleading content related to civic and democratic processes: Content that is demonstrably false and could significantly undermi…

I can see how information that contradicts the CDC falls under "Misleading content related to harmful health practices: Misleading health or medical content that promotes or encourages others to engage in practices that may lead to serious physical or emotional harm to individuals, or serious public health harm."

Of course, it wouldn't actually fall under anything since it's not misleading, but such things get interpreted by social media censorship boards as misleading.

Also, the gun violence one may fall under "serious public health harm". There have been plenty of attempts to control guns using public health claims. https://www.apha.org/topics-and-issues/gun-violence

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Post by _7cdn »

“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.” -George Orwell, 1984

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Post by vimy »

mancerayder wrote: post #105

I read regular stories on HN about employee activism on certain types of popular issues around gender and race, involving petitions and publicity. Spotify, Apple, Google. Yet nothing about the march towards totalitarianism and information control - always with good intentions and to our benefit - promulgated with stories such as this. Not a peep from our young Silicon Valley activists. Do we still teach history at sc…

Because the activists want tech companies to censor and control information.

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Post by natural219 »

floatingatoll wrote: post #110
s3r3nity wrote: post #51

How is this _not_ on the front page? Google is analyzing your files for content, and flagging if it doesn't align with narratives that a government body sets - and _removing all trace of that content._ If this doesn't conflict with the "hacker pathos," what the fuck is Hacker News then?

It's on the front page right now, but I'm not sure it deserves to be given the quality of HN's discussion so far. The top ten highest voted comments are essentially redundant copies of the same outrage, stated slightly differently. If everyone is just going to pile on and state how upset they are, instead of replying to each other's comments and keeping one thread for all the outrage, what's the point in bringing thi…

Why are you not outraged, lmao.

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Post by zpeti »

slg wrote: post #174
mancerayder wrote: post #105

I read regular stories on HN about employee activism on certain types of popular issues around gender and race, involving petitions and publicity. Spotify, Apple, Google. Yet nothing about the march towards totalitarianism and information control - always with good intentions and to our benefit - promulgated with stories such as this. Not a peep from our young Silicon Valley activists. Do we still teach history at sc…

>Do we still teach history at school? I'm talking about history of many countries. No fear whatsoever of information control and government censorship. I'm baffled and saddened. I agree. We don't spend enough time teaching about the history of free speech in other countries like Germany. And no, I don't only mean in 1930s and 1940s Germany. I also mean the Germany of today. They, along with much of Europe, have laws…

It is also slowly becoming illegal to criticise Islam.

Taking Islam out of the equation do you think it’s a good idea for any religion to actually be off the table in terms of discussion?

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Post by s3r3nity »

_2d30 wrote: post #156
mancerayder wrote: post #105

I read regular stories on HN about employee activism on certain types of popular issues around gender and race, involving petitions and publicity. Spotify, Apple, Google. Yet nothing about the march towards totalitarianism and information control - always with good intentions and to our benefit - promulgated with stories such as this. Not a peep from our young Silicon Valley activists. Do we still teach history at sc…

Join one of these companies and what you will find is that: > Not a peep from our young Silicon Valley activists . are the ones pushing FOR these changes.

> are the ones pushing FOR these changes.

Because the goal isn't to deconstruct those systems of power (as it probably _should_), but rather to put someone else in the center.

I once heard a Silicon Valley VC say on a podcast: "If you hear someone utter the term 'equity,' then run for the hills. Because it's really a power grab." (Not obviously talking about stock compensation, of course...)

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Post by ixacto »

echelon wrote: post #145
fraudz4us wrote: post #132

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

I just wanted to respond. Gain of function isn't a conspiracy. It's research methodology. We still don't know for a fact what happened. Lab leak seems incredibly plausible, but we need more data to understand. If lab leak is what happened, then this is likely a case of best intentions that went horribly awry. Your response is far too extreme and discounts the failure modes that may have been more likely. Researchers…

It’s possible that there were great intentions all around and the COVID leak was a horrible accident.

It’s also possible that a PRC agency or individual decided to take advantage of the situation and leak it to try and stick it to the United States as a geopolitical move.

I hope this isn’t true, but until we have additional evidence it would be impossible to rule this out entirely. Also the PRC needs to show that evidence to the world ASAP.

For some reason the media wants to call everyone that looks at the situation xenophobic and racist, which just leads me to believe there is more to the story.

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