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Re:Google Employees Protest Work on Censored Search Engine f... by brain_dev on Thursday August 16, 2018 @05:31PM (#17778573)
So surely you take no issue with Google developing a search engine that does not support free speech then, either?
Re:Google Employees Protest Work on Censored Search Engine f... by nrb on Thursday August 16, 2018 @06:38PM (#17778997)
The following are not equal:

1) Google has decided that it does not want this content on their platform.

2) The totalitarian government has decided that nobody can access this content on any platform.

Re:Google Employees Protest Work on Censored Search Engine f... by darpa_escapee on Thursday August 16, 2018 @07:04PM (#17779139)
Let's be clear here, it's not that they don't want content on their platform: it's that content blatantly violates their rules.

Encouraging the harassment of families of school shooting victims is pretty heinous, and not something I'd want affiliated with my brand. I also wouldn't want my brand to become a platform for someone who perpetuates conspiracy theories that cause true believes to pick up weapons and become terrorists, simply because that's how he makes a buck.

After all, both Google and Twitter have spent close to a decade silencing religious extremists on their platforms. Where were the free speech advocates when fundamentalist Muslims were silenced on Twitter and couldn't use the platform to spread their message?

Re:Google Employees Protest Work on Censored Search Engine f... by nrb on Thursday August 16, 2018 @07:44PM (#17779322)
Yeah, I equated the two concepts: they created rules to specify what they do and don't want on their platform. Sorry if it came across as them deciding arbitrarily on the fly.
Re:Google Employees Protest Work on Censored Search Engine f... by yacn on Thursday August 16, 2018 @08:22PM (#17779472)
False equivalency as has been said and I don't use google anyways...