i miss when they were doing cool shit, like encourage missions to the moon and researching crazy shit like teleportation

not politically motivated BS

Or firing their smarter members.

I'd really like a source on these deleted drives.

It proves not only is Google engaging in censorship but that it might not be a trustworthy repository. It also proves they can and do scan the contents of files on their cloud.

They didnt read the fucking paper

No, like I said it wasnt intentional

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_(company)

They were targeting people with shady shit.

That last one, if that gets sufficiently public could **kill** Google's commerce.

2010, they started doing cool shit, 2015, they started doing political shit

And they hit journalists that had the material

Businesses do **not** like other companies scanning their stuff.

I know of businesses that refuse to upgrade to Windows 10 because of new MS telemetry.

semi secret?

i mean, you could find info on it

i mean, one of the head guys was called "director of moon-shots" at one point

i miss THAT google

Same. Back when SV was unflinchingly libertarian.

Progressivism poisons everything

Libertarians are the ones we *want* in charge of everything. But they will never actually get in charge and hold it.

It's the classic "the best person for power is the one who least wants it" argument.

Needs to be the "physically remove" kind of libertarianism.

Anyways, does anyone have a reference on the Google's deletion of Google Drive contents or journalists?

It was a colelction of a few tweets I saw a few months, or a year ago

All i got are claims by a few journalists

So I got nothing as of now

darn. remember anything about them?

Or what they said was deleted?

All I know are some journos researching something, algorithm mistakes it for questionable content.

"the best person for power is the one who least wants it", which means its up to the people who need someone in that position to force their hand.

@GingaBomber
I did find this, but it's porn which is less damning in the public sphere
https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/18/03/25/0614209/sex-workers-say-porn-on-google-drive-is-suddenly-disappearing

If you ever remember anything more specific, please let me know. This is actually kinda serious if true and I'd like to try and track down some of these tweets.

Well, if its happening still, Im only saying it was journos saying it

I havent heard anything since those

And heres the thing, its google

They might be hiding it, might not. Might be resolved, but its been a long time ago. Something like this, people at KIA wont let them live it down and if they are not talking about it, it might not be so serious

Maybe. I think KiA is more outrage-bait than anything at this point. They don't do anything. And outrage-bait tends to forget all sorts of specifics. You need to maintain lists and easy reference bots to actually keep up with that sort of thing.

Pretty much

They focus on outrage more these days. Though I think their discord is better. Reddit was never good for long serious discussions.

https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/relationships/sex/man-with-no-penis-used-unknown-object-to-have-sex-with-two-girlfriends/news-story/b4b48721d765ad60bd10ccbcd0412122

Youd think that the feel of a penis would be hard to replicate with another object.

Old (2016, pre-election), but probably worth storing. Looks like Google has been shady for awhile.

https://www.usnews.com/opinion/articles/2016-06-22/google-is-the-worlds-biggest-censor-and-its-power-must-be-regulated

As an aside, it should be noted the Bush administration had actually been prepping an anti-trust case against Google but it got killed by Obama (Schmidt was very close to Obama and was a major Democratic donor).