Google is coming in for sharp criticism after video went viral of the Google Nest assistant refusing to answer basic questions about the Holocaust — but having no problem answer questions about the Nakba.

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      6 months ago

      Individual instances can and do but decentralization means everyone can spin one up with your own rules.

      I bet if you looked around there be plenty of lawless absolutist instances that allow all manners of free speech but non will adhere exactly to your own moral ideals besides the one you made yourself.

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      6 months ago

      Ideally the user would be in complete control of what gets censored for them. The service should simply flag content by category and the user could selectively show/hide content.