While I don't necessarily agree with it, I don't see why people feel entitled to claim this as a free speech violation etc.
It's Google's storage property and they can remove whatever they want from it.
They're not obligated to host anything.
It's Google's storage property and they can remove whatever they want from it.
They're not obligated to host anything.
We about to speedrun why freedom of speech is important!
I wonder, if this was proposed today, if it would have passed.
The public square is the internet these days. Freedom of speech is important enough that speaking in the public square should be protected, even when the square is seemingly owned and operated by a corporation... and probably especially then.
That's a nice idea, but it simply isn't reality.
Not when I pay rent to store my stuff on it. Then they are obligated to make google drive work like a drive where I put my files in, and when queried for them, my files come back out.
You can disclaim liability all you want, but there comes a point where you are selling data storage, and not delivering what you sold. Also, believe it or not, contract can contain terms and exclusions that are illegal and will be set aside in a lawsuit.
> So they're not obligated to do anything really.
This is what everyone sued for fraud or breach of contract thinks before an expensive, long, slow education takes place.
The bottom line is this. People can down-vote this comment all day. The facts are as they stand. Google has the right to remove whatever they want.
You're free to host your own content at any time.
From my post: "Not when I pay rent to store my stuff on it."
I wasn't talking about them, I was talking about my own relationship with Google, and my expectation that a vendor provides the service they promised to in exchange for my money.
> Google has the right to remove whatever they want.
Nope.
Many people are paying for that storage. I'm not sure Google should have the right to remove anything they want from it, just like the phone companies should not have the right to bleep out words in my phone conversations.
Maybe ownership should be different in this circumstance?
You might be surprised to learn that a landlord can charge extra or evict someone for nearly anything including working on/having cars they don’t like, having the wrong breed of dog, being LGBT, etc.