Conversely, if you introduce political censorship, you might get support by the copyright industry, including the news media, for helping their economic interests.

Never occurred to me. Interesting point to ponder.

“sweep out with the iron broom”

The would-be fascists don’t want democracy. Note how Trump is softening up the public by using the term fascism lately.

Good essay:

The goal is to shift the Overton window: dictatorship is not a threat, but a regrettable necessity… dictatorship as safety, democracy as danger.

https://michaeldsellers.substack.com/p/trump-says-americans-would-rather

Does this LbreOffice example answer your question?

OpenOffice got bought by Oracle apparently so people are jumping ship to LibreOffice.

The ideal of free speech is a naive fantasy especially with social media which can amplify the craziest of ideas which can go viral.

Yes the Left has gone overboard with their thought policing however the right wing in want their personal bigotry to be allowed and nobody else (no mention of DEI in USA government institutions allowed). The Left want free speech for everyone except the bigots but then their definition of bigots becomes a slippery slope.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance

No. A university study… I think.

So when I said “article” I meant the FTC letter OP linked to which, via footnote #2, in turn cites an article in New York Post which in turn cites the study.

A 2022 study by researchers at North Carolina State University found that Gmail flagged 59% more Republican fundraising emails as spam than Democratic ones during the leadup to the 2020 presidential election.

“We observed that the [spam filtering algorithms] of different email services indeed exhibit biases towards different political affiliations,” the researchers said at the time.

The consulting firm’s tests involved sending identical emails through Gmail, with the only difference being that one contained a WinRed donation link and the other contained an ActBlue link.

“The only difference between the two emails was the link,” the memo said. “ActBlue delivered. WinRed got flagged. That is not a coincidence.”

But I am confused: was a consultancy firm hired by the university? What kind of study contains a “memo”?

Even if it is indeed biased, surely Google is a business and can do as it pleases? Can Google/Alphabet get away with telling the FTC to eat a bag of dicks?

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Article says similar spam from Dems got through.

Thanks. That confirms it was before Dada.

The instance matters: some will ban you if you cite too many credible articles which bring up uncomfortable truths.

No matter what one’s stance is on a political subject, there will be some uncomfortable truths. Unlike a Hollywood hero movie.

I think it was just summarising the article, not giving an “opinion”.

This comment, summarising the author’s own admission, shows AI can’t reason:

this new result was just a matter of search and permutation and not discovery of new mathematics.

PPE? Against projectile vomiting? Need iron dome style lasers for that.

Women’s apparel notoriously often lacks any pockets. At least historically. Not sure if there is a connection with the standard baby gear but an odd coincidence regardless.

If one is attracted to perfume and makeup and pretty colors then women partners are the easy choice. Just sayin’ 🤪

True. Still funny.

If the gays don’t have kids we will run out of gays /s

I have had that one often even with landlines.

Last night I dreamt the icons on my home screen were scrambled. To make matters worse, there was a transparent vertical Windows style taskbar overlaid with its own icons and I could not find the icon/app I wanted.

Yes Windows and phone in the one nightmare! Could have been worse: a clippy AI 🤓

Networking your home computers still does not work smoothly in Windows. It often stops for no good reason until you reboot everything.

Apple has even fewer choices and therefore greater consistency.

It aint the honours students who are succumbing to conspiracy videos.

That’s even “worse” than the 15 minute city. MAGA would lose their minds.