Re:Statistics Professor Just Banned by Google: Here Is His S...
by chongli on Monday August 21, 2017 @03:08PM
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How is that relevant to the story of whether or not it's appropriate for Google, or indeed any large service provider (Cloudflare), to take their account offline?
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Re:Statistics Professor Just Banned by Google: Here Is His S...
by jolux on Monday August 21, 2017 @03:10PM
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Because one of them fits in a narrative of Google being politically censorious and the other doesn't. I don't know exactly what caused it but Peterson definitely tests boundaries a lot more than this guy. It's no insult, I'm sure he would say the same of himself.
Re:Statistics Professor Just Banned by Google: Here Is His S...
by chongli on Monday August 21, 2017 @03:15PM
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Even if this was an accident of some algorithm, that no person at Google had any idea this would happen, it is still problematic. Algorithms and data sets can be biased just as much as people are. It's a wake-up call for all of us who entrust too much of our digital lives with Google. It's putting all our eggs in one basket.