alt Hacker NewsBlock lists will always be used for one reason or another, in this case these are verified malicious sites, there is no subjective analysis element in the equation that could be misconstrued as censorship. But even if there was, censorship implies a right to speech, in this case Google has the right to restrict the speech of it's users if it so wishes, matter of fact, through extensions there are many that do censor their users using Chrome.
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rstupek • yesterday at 5:08 PM
I know for a fact that GSB contains non-malicious sites in its dataset.
> censorship implies a right to speech, in this case Google has the right to restrict the speech of it's users
I don't follow. Even if Google does have the legal right [1], that does not make the censorship less problematic, or morally right. And even if it's hard to make a legislative fix ("You want to ban companies from trying to protect their users from phishing?") [2], that doesn't undo the problems of the current state, or mean we should be silent about it.
[1] This is far from certain, as it could be argued to be tortious interference, abuse of market power, defamation if they call something phishing when it's not.. Then there's the question of jurisdiction..
[2] It's a very common debating tactic to assert that a solution is difficult, to avoid admitting a problem exists.