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Re:Statistics Professor Just Banned by Google: Here Is His S... by weberc2 on Monday August 21, 2017 @05:22PM (#15067966)
No, but the odds of my email account going away (while catastrophic) seem pretty unlikely, and not having to sift through spam every single day is a pretty nice perk. Basically strong spam filtering support is a requirement for any tool I use, and I'm happy to hop off of Gmail if another tool delivers comparable value.
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Re:Statistics Professor Just Banned by Google: Here Is His S... by mirimir on Monday August 21, 2017 @06:41PM (#15068376)
I do get that. And perhaps you're discreet enough online that your Google account will never attract scrutiny. But it's something that every Google user ought to keep in mind, I think. I'm guessing that Salil Mehta never even considered it.
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Re:Statistics Professor Just Banned by Google: Here Is His S... by weberc2 on Tuesday August 22, 2017 @06:18AM (#15071031)
Fair point, but I don't understand why people think this is a case of Salil offending Google's censors and not simply algorithms gone awry. I got downvoted for expressing this doubt elsewhere in this thread, but no one could answer. I just can't parse a motive for Google to censor him on (as far as I know, he didn't criticize Google's diversity policies or anything of the sort).
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