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Re:Google Drive bans distribution of “misleading content” by overgard on Saturday July 17, 2021 @10:19AM (#27865947)
The amount of power google has, they can crown the winner. We can't pretend that "oh thats just google's opinion" when they control access to humanities collective knowledge.

My argument is very humble. Everyone gets to talk, whoever is most convincing gets listened to most. I don't need a paternalistic company protecting me from bad thoughts.

> This position is bizarre to me -- what do you think an elected government is?

A system with an intentional freedom to allow dissent?

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Re:Google Drive bans distribution of “misleading content” by CRConrad on Saturday July 24, 2021 @04:00AM (#27939162)
> My argument is very humble. Everyone gets to talk, whoever is most convincing gets listened to most. I don't need a paternalistic company protecting me from bad thoughts.

You're talking now, and this isn't (AFAIK) on Google Drive.

You want Drive to be a democratically guaranteed national resource, nationalize Google.

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Re:Google Drive bans distribution of “misleading content” by Angelore on Tuesday July 20, 2021 @10:07AM (#27893888)
They are not protecting you from bad thoughts. They are protecting themselves from lawsuits. Moderating all this content is not free. If google was not under risk of losing money by not doing this, they would have done nothing.
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