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Re:Google: Please Stop Telling Lies About Me by daveFNbuck on Tuesday January 22, 2019 @07:37PM (#18974501)
Would you consider it lying if someone at Google reviewed his request, understood it to be true, and then did not change the incorrect information?
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Re:Google: Please Stop Telling Lies About Me by anonytrary on Wednesday January 23, 2019 @12:57AM (#18976002)
I think you know what I'm gonna say. No, it's not "lying". Stop using that word, or look up the definition already. Use a better word like "negligence".
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Re:Google: Please Stop Telling Lies About Me by daveFNbuck on Wednesday January 23, 2019 @01:53AM (#18976246)
I honestly thought you were going to agree that this would be a lie. I thought you were saying lies are about knowingly spreading a falsehood. Once someone at Google has verified that it's false, how does its continued spread not become a lie in the same way that it would be if that person wrote the untrue statement?
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