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So surely you take no issue with Google developing a search engine that does not support free speech then, either?

• nrb 8y ago
  The following are not equal: 1) Google has decided that it does not want this content on their platform. 2) The totalitarian government has decided that nobody can access this content on any platform.
  • darpa_escapee 8y ago
    Let's be clear here, it's not that they don't want content on their platform: it's that content blatantly violates their rules. Encouraging the harassment of families of school shooting victims is pretty heinous, and not something I'd want affiliated with my brand. I also wouldn't want my brand to become a platform for someone who perpetuates conspiracy theories that cause true believes to pick up weapons and become terrorists, simply because that's how he makes a buck. After all, both Google and Twitter have spent close to a decade silencing religious extremists on their platforms. Where were the free speech advocates when fundamentalist Muslims were silenced on Twitter and couldn't use the platform to spread their message?
    • nrb 8y ago
      Yeah, I equated the two concepts: they created rules to specify what they do and don't want on their platform. Sorry if it came across as them deciding arbitrarily on the fly.
• yacn 8y ago
  False equivalency as has been said and I don't use google anyways...