Sundar Pichai warns of threats to internet freedom

Re:Sundar Pichai warns of threats to internet freedom by ignoramous on Sunday July 11, 2021 @11:56PM (#27806863)

To be fair, Pichai's quote is taken out of context. In his capacity as Alphabet CEO, he worries about neutrality of the interconnects. TFA goes:

> And, when I asked about whether the Chinese model of the internet - much more authoritarian, big on surveillance - is in the ascendant, Pichai said the free and open internet "is being attacked". Importantly, he didn't refer to China directly but he went on to say: "None of our major products and services are available in China."

Google does run at least one semi-independent group to tackle such censorship, disinformation, propaganda, and abuse https://jigsaw.google.com/

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Re:Sundar Pichai warns of threats to internet freedom by BuyMyBitcoins on Monday July 12, 2021 @01:06AM (#27807218)

Call me a cynic but I’m 99% sure that group of Google’s is probably just as ideologically progressive as Google and not independent in any substantial way. Everything from that link reads like progressive ad-copy.

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Re:Sundar Pichai warns of threats to internet freedom by adolph on Monday July 12, 2021 @10:08AM (#27810427)

Toxic language online silences important voices. We’re exploring how machine learning can reduce toxicity online and create more space for healthy conversation.

Throughout this report we use the term “toxicity,” defined as rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable language that is likely to make someone leave a discussion. We specifically use the term toxicity, as opposed to words like “abuse” or “hate speech” for both practical and scientific reasons.

https://jigsaw.google.com/the-current/toxicity/

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Re:Sundar Pichai warns of threats to internet freedom by seriousquestion on Monday July 12, 2021 @10:29AM (#27810646)

> “toxicity,” defined as rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable language that is likely to make someone leave a discussion. We specifically use the term toxicity, as opposed to words like “abuse” or “hate speech” for both practical and scientific reasons.

Scientific reasons? There's nothing scientific about a term so undefined that every person can have their own custom definition.

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Re:Sundar Pichai warns of threats to internet freedom by justshowpost on Tuesday July 13, 2021 @04:48AM (#27818805)

While «hate speech» is merely a convenient alias for «free speech we don't like». That figures.

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