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> would you feel the same if the deleted document was a plan for a nuclear weapon Those two situations aren't even remotely comparable - nuclear weapon plans a
by throw10920 5y ago
> would you feel the same if the deleted document was a plan for a nuclear weapon
Those two situations aren't even remotely comparable - nuclear weapon plans are straight-up illegal for individuals to own in the US, so by removing one of those, Google would be complying with federal law.
The Christchurch shooting video was not illegal under any law that I'm aware of, so Google was not legally required to delete it, and it was a primary source for a historical event, so Google shouldn't have deleted it, especially not from users' private drives that they weren't sharing (as then you can't even claim that they were spreading extremist material).
- pyuser583 5y agoThere was a legal case in the US about this … the government accidentally declassified the blueprints for a nuclear bomb. A magazine tried to publish the blueprints. The government argued all nuke related info is classified regardless of actual legal status. The federal government dropped the case, fearing they would lose.