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Re:Hacker News Guidelines by roenxi on Saturday April 23, 2022 @04:52AM (#31132526)
Tech is currently intensely political. I use Google Docs in the workplace, and Google has apparently just announced they are going to be challenging my use of language and pressuring me to conform to their values. I've never been coerced that way by an art, science or mathematical consultancy. Even the police have never tried something like that!

Now I haven't read the announcement or looked into this feature myself so hopefully I'm misinformed, but the idea is so reasonable and in line with the sort of thing Google would attempt to do that it is easy to believe. They've already made active attempts to swing elections with their YouTube censorship programs; their actions around the Hunter Biden thing look terrible in hindsight. This is politics in a way that most other domains aren't. It is up there with newspapers and news media for having a political slant.

Re:Hacker News Guidelines by AlchemistCamp on Saturday April 23, 2022 @03:48PM (#31137793)
There are many other, less inflammatory topics about Google Docs that could be discussed, though.

In fact, I could easily see one forum discussing the product's language policing and another one discussing its engineering. Yet a different forum might focus on its various successes and failures in gaining market share.