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Re:I Quit Google Over Its Censored Chinese Search Engine by brlewis on Monday December 03, 2018 @03:58PM (#18592919)
I admit to not having seen those discussions, but I doubt they show consensus within google that certain publications should be banned. In any group of people there will be some who will say they'd like to ban something, be it Hello Kitty or whatever.

Disclaimer: ex-googler

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Re:I Quit Google Over Its Censored Chinese Search Engine by vermilingua on Monday December 03, 2018 @04:12PM (#18593071)
They don't need to show consensus; they simply need to show (as they have done) that there is some number of bad actors within the company with both the means and motivation to enforce their own bias on the rest of the world.
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Re:I Quit Google Over Its Censored Chinese Search Engine by brlewis on Monday December 03, 2018 @04:21PM (#18593182)
The claim I replied to is: "We've recently seen leaked internal discussions by Google engineers saying they want to ban media publications they don't like."

Individual engineers did not have the means to ban in 2013 when I was an engineer in Search Features. I seriously doubt that's changed.

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Re:I Quit Google Over Its Censored Chinese Search Engine by reaperducer on Monday December 03, 2018 @04:10PM (#18593052)
Does it matter if there's consensus?

From everything we know so far, there was no consensus about Dragonfly, but it got built anyway.

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