Google Drive bans distribution of “misleading content”

Re:Google Drive bans distribution of “misleading content” by jfengel on Friday July 16, 2021 @02:13PM (#27859312)

Many of the components of the abuse page talk about "distribution", but the one about hate speech is simply "Do not engage in hate speech".

The way I read that, they could conceivably boot you just for having a private diary of racist rants. I don't know if they intend it that way; it's also possible that they'd interpret "speech" as meaning "speech where somebody else can hear you".

But if you were looking for more reason to drop your Drive subscription, that might be it.

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Re:Google Drive bans distribution of “misleading content” by Uhhrrr on Friday July 16, 2021 @03:26PM (#27860194)

Also, what if the content wasn't racist when you wrote it?

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Re:Google Drive bans distribution of “misleading content” by BitwiseFool on Friday July 16, 2021 @02:46PM (#27859727)

The Terms of Service are written broadly and that's on purpose so that Google can take the liberty of interpreting things however they please. Ultimately, it comes down to the culture of the team that deals with content scanning and take-down requests. I'm willing to bet money that it is staffed by Progressive Bay-Area folks and the implications should be self evident.

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Re:Google Drive bans distribution of “misleading content” by polynomial on Friday July 16, 2021 @02:47PM (#27859753)

Even more problematic is the difficulty current algorithms have in distinguishing "engaging" in a certain class of speech acts from studying said class. This requires a subtlety of parsing humans are (sometimes) capable of, but machines still struggle with.

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