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Re:Google Safe Browsing can kill a startup by __turbobrew__ on Saturday January 16, 2021 @04:37PM (#25805742)
> since then it seems that they have forgotten their fear of liability

They most likely have offloaded the liability to a “machine learning algorithm”. It’s easy for companies to point the finger at an algorithm instead of them taking responsibility.

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Re:Google Safe Browsing can kill a startup by worik on Saturday January 16, 2021 @06:37PM (#25806593)
Which then leads them to the awkward place of having to be transparent about how their algorithm work

Either take responsibility, or be transparent.

But we all want our cake and eat it

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Re:Google Safe Browsing can kill a startup by monsieurbanana on Sunday January 17, 2021 @01:07AM (#25808575)
I take offense to this. Sure, I like to eat cake.

But if I liked to eat cake as much as Google does, I'd have died of obesity (= have my life ruined by legal issues) a long time ago.

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