Google demands that Naked Capitalism censors their content. What could possibly go wrong with megacorps acting as arbitrary censors of content without any accountability.

☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.ml · 8 months ago

Google demands that Naked Capitalism censors their content. What could possibly go wrong with megacorps acting as arbitrary censors of content without any accountability.

plinky [he/him]@hexbear.net · 8 months ago

Allegedly over covid, which some of their posts did have that vibe, but less malicious than cdc

☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.ml · 8 months ago

The main problem in my view is that this sort of thing is done opaquely by a private entity that’s not accountable to the public. The same problem applies to whatever algorithm Google uses to decide what we see in search results. This is a very subtle and nefarious way to do censorship.

Google demands that Naked Capitalism censors their content. What could possibly go wrong with megacorps acting as arbitrary censors of content without any accountability.

Google demands that Naked Capitalism censors their content. What could possibly go wrong with megacorps acting as arbitrary censors of content without any accountability.

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