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Animal Farm shit.

• mock-possum 3y ago
  How’s that? As far as I can remember, nothing comparable happens in Animal Farm. Or do you mean ‘1984?’ If it were an Animal Farm situation, google would start out by saying users are allowed to save any links, and then later change their policy to only allow users to save some links. The main takeaway from Animal Farm is generally understood to be “all animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others” - it’s equivocation around the term ‘equal.’ It doesn’t address censorship, or liability, which is the realm that Google’s policy deals with.
  • NotYourLawyer 3y ago
    The silently changing commandments was what I was referring to.
    • fragmede 3y ago
      The pigs go around chanting the new slogan after they've changed it. That doesn't seem like a silent change.
    • RIMR 3y ago
      I'm pretty sure they're enforcing an existing rule, it's just that people weren't aware that urls booked from the Google Search app would get stored somewhere else that was sharable, and ended up getting flagged. It doesn't seem like something sinister from Google, but rather poor planning when developing how links get saved. As far as I can tell, this has nothing to do with your Chrome Browser bookmarks or anything, but a different system that most people are either not using, or are unknowingly using. This really could be fixed by only enforcing this policy on infringing collections content that is shared. As an example, you can still upload movies and TV shows to Google Drive without consequence, it's only when you share those files that Google might intervene.
      • NotYourLawyer 3y ago
        Why do you think this was an preexisting rule? The fact that no one expected this behavior weighs somewhat in the other direction.