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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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