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> a concern which is not necessarily distilled down to "big brother" or "corporate overlords". My first thought was the time that Google banned a genocide rese
by trutannus 4y ago
> a concern which is not necessarily distilled down to "big brother" or "corporate overlords".
My first thought was the time that Google banned a genocide researcher and froze their Drive account because it contained images and video of warcrimes for their research. I can only imagine this `feature` going the same way over time. This is going to affect people who are legitimately studying social problems, more than it is likely to help fix the problems they're studying.
For example, the Nuremberg Trial transcript probably contains some pretty choice words. If Google starts suggesting edits, or worse auto-applying them like they do with spelling, we run the risk of whitewashing documents like this unintentionally.
- reaperducer 4y agoThis is going to affect people who are legitimately studying social problems We don't need people to fix social problems anymore. We have the tech industry to do that for us. After all, freedom and independent thought don't scale.
- trutannus 4y ago"It's an engineering problem"