perhaps I misunderstood, I took your meaning to be that people depend necessarily on the constellation of google services
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Replying to @alicemazzy @CTZN5
whereas I am arguing in most cases the dependence is merely incidental
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yeah my intent was to explain why, bc of the ad market (google's real biz; the rest is all just chaff for antitrust investigators & laymen)…
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…that even people like you and me are wayyyy more dependent on google for the existence of our daily world, than you might think
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and that their willingness to censor things (see article at TPM) inadvertently affects even people like us, as it distorts the info market
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or, see also that day or so when
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he angered the censorship gods on youtube, and the result was all his emails for a decade+ were gone, and they denied his appeal as well
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Replying to @CTZN5 @alicemazzy
so the long tail of risk here is similar to, what are the odds i'm shot by a cop in mistake? low. but i have zero control over if it happens
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so the fact that cops are shooting people by mistake wayyy too often, is disturbing, and makes me wary of cops, even if the odds are "low"
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Even I stash stuff in Drive, gmail. I won't DIE but it would be much like a house fire, where you lose a lot of shit, if i got locked out
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actually I guess the other half of this is I understand all the problems inherent in overzealous pro-lefty content moderation
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Replying to @alicemazzy @CTZN5
I just don't actually care. they're going to do it anyway because it's fashionable, bitching about it is useless, work around it
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well hopefully whoever reads the thread has a better idea now of just how many layers of workarounds are needed, and they get to work
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