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Unplugged. I feel like I still haven’t gotten a clear answer on whether there should be a limit on Google’s ability to control information on its platform and w
by peytn 6y ago
Unplugged. I feel like I still haven’t gotten a clear answer on whether there should be a limit on Google’s ability to control information on its platform and what that limit should be. Can Google route emails from its competitor’s recruiters to my spam folder? Can they choose not to do business with me if I contact their employees? What if I email the wrong politicians?
Have we really reached the point where asking where the line is after the president is banned is seen as rhetorical? How can we make good decisions if we can’t have these discussions? It feels like we are working off a “common sense” that is shared only by those who consume political theater. I’m not sympathetic—-I don’t even know the story—-but I see what I perceive to be a lack of deliberation.
- smcl 6y agoShould there be a limit? Probably. What should that limit be? Well that's where I'm afraid nobody can provide you the definitive answer you are looking for. Not least me, I've enough on my plate at the moment and it deserves more time than I can give to it. As for the second point - you can surely see how your original comment could be interpreted how it was. Nobody replying wanted to shut down a discussion on the nuances of whether tech giants should restrict expression or activities on their platforms. However your comment was (inadvertently it seems) similar in flavour to an argument many of us have seen over and over from the far-right - holding up a very uncontroversial everyday thing and a very divisive hot-button issue and demanding to know how they are different. In that circumstance - and I am speaking from experience here - normally nothing good comes from engaging.