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Google could decide that it doesn't want to be associated with guns in any way and not allow advertising for any type of gun related content and purge all gun c
by post_break 8y ago
Google could decide that it doesn't want to be associated with guns in any way and not allow advertising for any type of gun related content and purge all gun content on any of its platforms.
Replace guns with ________ and repeat.
- crazygringo 8y agoBut 1) pretty much all advertising platforms reject certain categories of ads, and 2) if Google stops returning search results for certain categories of content and people feel this is wrong, they'll immediately start jumping to Bing or DuckDuckGo etc. Yes, Google could do all sorts of stupid things. But if they do, wouldn't that be the fastest way for their dominance to erode? The fact that they're a profit-driven corporation, combined with the fact that censorship tends to piss off and drive away customers, doesn't really let me imagine any realistic scenario here.
- martin1975 8y agowell, there's two ways to solve that. Regulate or invest in the competition .. or create competition. Which one would you like?
- jessaustin 8y agoISTM the best way to "create competition" would be to start using competing services... which is what DW and others are suggesting in this very thread.