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Google Removes ‘Pirate’ URLs from Users’ Privately Saved Links::undefined

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (17 children)

They shouldnt be reading and playing with things privately stored. Are they going to go through all my documents to replace any swear words? It's completely inexcusable. Private doesn't mean private until some big company asks about it wtf.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (3 children)

It's not on bookmarks. Is on collections(a different thing) that are public, shareable and technically hosted by Google. This whole thing has been overblown by not fact checking.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It deleted them from public and private collections.

If google was taking out mentions of Tiananmen Square at China's request, would you be okay with it?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's a giant leap and massively different.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

Both are blatant forms of censorship, one is extreme but the principal is the exact same.

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