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A comment on Google's stance on neo-Nazis 'dangerous', says EFF.

Re:Google's stance on neo-Nazis 'dangerous', says EFF by averagewall on Friday August 18, 2017 @09:30AM (#15045903)
Why are big companies banning this? Surely Google, GoDaddy and Cloudflare, even Spotify aren't going to be hurt by any public backlash. GoDaddy is already widely despised as a bad actor. I can understand a small startup at risk of being destroyed by an internet mob for supporting Nazis, but not these.

Are they afraid of legal consequences? Aren't they safe to just wait till the police asks them to take it down before doing so?

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Re:Google's stance on neo-Nazis 'dangerous', says EFF by dragonwriter on Friday August 18, 2017 @09:34AM (#15045931)
> Why are big companies banning this? Surely Google, GoDaddy and Cloudflare, even Spotify aren't going to be hurt by any public backlash

Because they are owned and run by humans with moral values, not financial return maximizing automatons?

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Re:Google's stance on neo-Nazis 'dangerous', says EFF by pyroinferno on Friday August 18, 2017 @09:38AM (#15045978)
The Stormfront is a well known FBI honey pot. Why would people with "moral values" try to interfere with the FBI trying to infiltrate and arrest nazis?
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Re:Google's stance on neo-Nazis 'dangerous', says EFF by 5040 on Friday August 18, 2017 @09:37AM (#15045962)
It may be that they are worried about getting punished by advertisers in the future. Youtube took a hit when news stories started claiming that extremists were making money off videos on the site.
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Re:Google's stance on neo-Nazis 'dangerous', says EFF by watty on Friday August 18, 2017 @10:18AM (#15046381)
It's the opposite - they believe that banning them will get them GOOD publicity, and it has. Look at how many people are talking about OkCupid today for banning that Nazi in the Vice video.
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