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I'll focus only on "Project Shield".

It's supposed to protect news outlets from DDoS. Fine.

It's altruistic. Fine.

I see no technical guarantee that some future Google couldn't pull the shield away from a news outlet that speaks ill of Google. Not fine.

No centralized "shield" tech can provide said guarantee--rather, only a decentralized, community-driven shield can be provably neutral. Amiright?

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It which point the news agency could make a big deal out of it, probably not worth the hassle. I mean you can search for bad stuff about google on google and find results - they havent filtered that either

ha, if they filter that, it will be the ultimate red flag. i read an article on prisonplanet.com that said they removed them, and cnet.com from search listings on the front page because they published some critical articles involving google and the 'see aye lmao' (three letters)

Google will, in all likelihood, very selectively give protection to news outlets.

For example those from the Board of Broadcasting Governors, or from the BIIP, or from USAID, or from US sponsored NGOs are definitely going to get support.

Don't forget VOA. :P

VOA is under the BBG. :)

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