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Google has an at-will contract with users. They have no legal obligation to host their content, and can take it down for any reason.

• hedora 6y ago
  This is why online consumer platforms should be treated as public utilities once they reach a certain size. Amazon’s online shopping arm, youtube, facebook, and gmail are products that clearly meet the bar. Search engines probably do too, at least with respect to web site owners.
  • ikeboy 6y ago
    Do you intend to ban ranking algorithms?
    • anewdirection 6y ago
      I think making them optional or auditable would be a start.
      • ikeboy 6y ago
        I've seen some plausible proposals along those lines. I don't actually think there's sufficient demand for that. The vast majority of people wouldn't want to roll their own spam detection algorithms. And there's only so much an outside source can do to filter spam without giving the enough info that spammers can reverse engineer.