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>They act like they're some superimportant holders of knowledge, and require all kind of identification, personal information, ID document copies, whatever, jus

>They act like they're some superimportant holders of knowledge, and require all kind of identification, personal information, ID document copies, whatever, just to even listen to you. Google's real issue isn't that they have some deep ideological conviction to free speech. This isn't 1998-2008 Google anymore, all the "free speech" libertarians have either left the company or retired rich. Their real issue is that a zero marginal cost business, like a search engine, is starting to have some costs now. Their opposition to these types of laws is about preserving their high margin, infinitely scalable business model. That may have been the primary motivator in the early years of Google as well, the ideology may have just been grafted on later.

megous 7y ago
Yeah, it's really easy to prove you have a valid request on the internet, if the real people are processing your request. When I assumed some website would liked more verification that I actually owned the domain before asking for removal, I just put the text into a file hosted on the domain, and there was no problem. But that requires having people process your request and having un-structured request medium, like accepting e-mails on some preferred address. And it looks like google liks to avoid having an unstructured input from random plebes, presumably to avoid expensive human labor.