Google Drive bans distribution of “misleading content”

Re:Google Drive bans distribution of “misleading content” by joe_the_user on Friday July 16, 2021 @06:26PM (#27861921)

First, since you've been derailing thing from one question another, I have to mention that a thing shared publicly from a Google drive account is no more accessible than a thing shared from a website that a person sets themselves, so Google drive accessibly is not particular answer to social network news filtering.

But on the topic of social network news filtering, anyone who uses a social network is implicitly consenting to that network's filtering of information.

Once upon a time, most people got their news from a single newspaper - well informed people might read several papers as well as newsmagazines but even this implied a lot of filtering. Those newspapers filtered the news more heavily than any present network.

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Re:Google Drive bans distribution of “misleading content” by rscoots on Friday July 16, 2021 @07:52PM (#27862467)

>anyone who uses a social network is implicitly consenting to that network's filtering of information.

In what way does this make censorship the morally right thing to do? Think of all the evil large corporations have tried to justify with statements like that^ over the years.

"Our billions of users should have known we were gonna pull the wool over their eyes!"

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Re:Google Drive bans distribution of “misleading content” by thegrimmest on Sunday July 18, 2021 @03:35PM (#27875906)

I think the point here is that these are private businesses, and their platforms are private property. The liberty to choose what you do with your property overrides any responsibility to do the "morally right" thing, whatever that actually is.

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