Google Drive and Censorship

I’ve told you and told you and told you but some people aren’t listening. Okay, let’s be honest, they aren’t even reading to begin with but they should be. If you use Google products for producing, storing, or sharing your documents, expect to have them reviewed and if they fail to conform to Google’s political preferences, to have them removed or blocked.

Here’s the latest example:

First time I’ve seen a cloud drive blocking a document…

It was a very long document re vaccination headlines from around the world. pic.twitter.com/cB8zD6FBAR

— Anna Brees (@BreesAnna) April 21, 2021

Notice that we’re not even talking about “dangerous” or controversial material here¹. It’s simply a collection of headlines concerning vaccinations but Google has a preferred narrative and if one of those headlines contravenes that narrative, their slipshod algorithms will flag the entire document as too dangerous to see the light of day.

Maybe it’s just me but I don’t want third parties reading and reviewing my documents and I certainly don’t want them disappearing those documents. There are plenty of ways of producing and sharing your content that doesn’t involve Google. I just don’t understand people who are willing to risk having their data deleted simply because Google has some convenient tools.

There are plenty of free, safe, Word clones to produce your content if you insist on Microsoft’s version of WYSIWYG, and as I’ve said before I pay about $100 a year for the Irreal Web site. I’m sure you can do better if you try. As I’ve also said before, if you insist on using Google for your content, I’m not going to feel sorry for you when the inevitable happens