4 ms·
I kinda don't know how to feel about this one. This kinda seems like a continuation of the problem with revenge porn, child porn, etc just at a much larger sca
by nerdjon 2y ago
I kinda don't know how to feel about this one.
This kinda seems like a continuation of the problem with revenge porn, child porn, etc just at a much larger scale and able to impact a lot more people.
And that is a real problem and we should do what we can to product the victims.
But I struggle with this quote:
>. “Google has ruined lives and is shamefully inflexible at responding to developing problems,” Goldberg said, joining others decrying Google's move as "too little, too late."
Google isn't the service that is generating these images, they are not hosting them, they are just the search engine to find where they are.
Unless google blocks all porn related searches, I just don't know what realistically can be done about this from Google's prospective at any reasonable scale. The idea of a human looking at everything that google crawls just isn't realistic.
And I have a lot of problems with Google. I just, am struggling with putting this on them specifically. Instead the legislation going after those that are hosting it, making it, etc which is mentioned in the article.
- f33d5173 2y ago*protect *perspective
- onemoresoop 2y agoThey are facilitators. If Google weren't so money hungry these kind of results wouldn't rank high enough to be discovered. They should probably continuously get fined until they alter their behavior.
- randunel 2y agoWhat should they be getting fined for? Ranking individual links according to some generic algorithm? Is there a law specifying what algorithms may be or not be used for individual or types of links?
- SpicyLemonZest 2y agoI don't follow what this has to do with money hunger. Is your contention that Google profits somehow from having these images be higher rather than lower in search results? Why would that be more profitable?
- harshaxnim 2y agoFwiw, I agree w you. I think business incentives are sometimes misaligned w what is holistically good for a society. Just because what is good for society cannot be clearly defined, all effort to do so must not be given up. For instance Laws punishing google when ranking CP high will def bring a change in Google's attitude towards dealing with this stuff.