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I also know that Google is a system operated by humans who are responsible for its effects. If you operate a machine and it harms people, you are responsible. T

I also know that Google is a system operated by humans who are responsible for its effects. If you operate a machine and it harms people, you are responsible. The fact that the harm was done by an automatic process does not change this. How far down the line does this logic follow? Are the people who created the programming language that Google used to write their search algorithm responsible as well? What about the construction company that dug the ditch for the fiber cables in the ground through which Google's information runs. I know exactly how a search engine works, so your explanation is irrelevant. No you don't.

gress 12y ago
I know how a search engine works. Saying I don't know simply proves that you are willing to make statements that you provably cannot support, which weakens everything else you say. I simply disagree with your views on the responsibility of corporations for what they publish. The comments about construction companies and programming languages are a straw man. The issue is the information that Google the company provides to searchers about people. Google the company is providing a service for which they as a company are responsible. The methods they use to provide the service don't change that.