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Re:Google tags Wikileaks as a dangerous site by modeless on Friday July 22, 2016 @08:49PM (#12147806)
OK, sure, but that's a completely different ethical question than that suggested above. You are asking whether it's ethical to deploy automated malware scanners (clearly ethical in my view especially considering that the scanner is correct in this case; there is malware hosted on the site as pointed out above), while the original suggestion was that Google had consciously applied this label for some legal or moral reason unrelated to actual malware.
Re:Google tags Wikileaks as a dangerous site by bordercases on Friday July 22, 2016 @09:34PM (#12147942)
These are all good points, but I will make the claim that it is typically possible to edit the labels of classifiers manually if they are inaccurate. Whether it is the case here, I'm uncertain, but it's worth considering. If this tag was in effect just after their recent DNC leak, the timing is uncanny, particularly since we know that Google has political leanings.