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Google (and their ilk) are risk adverse. Is it legal to keep a list of electoral candidates and their public info? Yes. Could it be disinformation? It could.

Google (and their ilk) are risk adverse. Is it legal to keep a list of electoral candidates and their public info? Yes. Could it be disinformation? It could. Would that be harmful to Google to have Google Sheets be used to distribute? Yes. Does the risk of it being bad outweigh the benefit of keeping legal content? Yes, strongly, and it *always* will. It is always in Google's interest to be as risk adverse as possible. They always will be. (This applies to all clouds too)

jfoster 4y ago
> Would that be harmful to Google to have Google Sheets be used to distribute? Yes. If it's a private file (not shared), the question doesn't even make sense. Some degree of control might make sense for 100% publicly shared content on Google Drive, but how does it make any sense that they are cutting off access for the owner of the content?
- vorpalhex 4y ago
  Why risk it, if you're Google?
  - jfoster 4y ago
    Because part of being big & successful if you're Google involves operating a business. If your approach to everything is "why risk it?" then you eventually just choose to shut everything down.
    - vorpalhex 4y ago
      I mean that is literally what Google has been doing.