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A comment on “find a way to be a predatory squatter on a chokepoint” – Cory Doctorow. Parent comment

Re:“find a way to be a predatory squatter on a chokepoint” –... by theshrike79 on Friday February 24, 2023 @08:26AM (#34924243)
Yep, but try to put Google ads on a page with naked or scantily dressed people, you'll get banned real fast. =)

Stealing and impersonation good, sex bad.

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Re:“find a way to be a predatory squatter on a chokepoint” –... by input_sh on Friday February 24, 2023 @11:37AM (#34926410)
I don't think sex bad is a Google problem as much the US problem. After all, it's not just ads and it's not just Google.

People in the US have this puritanical view on sex -> it is inherited by Silicon Valley -> it gets forced onto the rest of us.

Since the rest of us are forced to rely on US-based products in some capacity (app stores, payment processors, CDNs...), you can't make anything sex-related even in places where sex work is viewed far more openly than in the US.

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