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Please don't characterize this as a political voices thing. Of course it's _related_, but this instance is about misclassification of private data, not silencin
by saxonww 5y ago
Please don't characterize this as a political voices thing. Of course it's _related_, but this instance is about misclassification of private data, not silencing voices online.
Also, Google is not a private company.
- dreamcompiler 5y agoThey are a private company in the sense that they are not a government entity, and thus the first amendment does not apply to them. This is a different sense of the word "private" than whether their stock is or is not publicly traded on an exchange.
- Igelau 5y agoWhat do you do when all speech takes place on corporate-owned platforms?
- PKop 5y agoThe nature of the problem (a big monopolist behemoth of a corporation is too big and powerful and lacks incentives to change) and the solution (only state action, regulation, mandates, i.e. something more powerful than Google must enforce Google to act) is by definition a political problem. This is like the epitome of what politics is for.