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Google has told the EU it will not add fact checks to search results and YouTube videos or use them in ranking or removing content, despite the requirements of a new EU law, according to a copy of a letter obtained by Axios

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[–] NaibofTabr@infosec.pub 0 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (5 children)

Oh, yes I agree they should be responsible for anything they generate themselves, but if it's just a regurgitation of content that their web crawler pulled from a website which then appeared in search results then it's the original website that should be responsible.

It seems like a heavy-handed enforcement of this policy could just break web search functionality entirely.

Downvoters have no idea how web indexes work.

[–] FooBarrington@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago (4 children)

So if Google pulls out the wrong part of your website and gives dangerous information, you'd be responsible?

[–] NaibofTabr@infosec.pub 0 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Well, why is that 'dangerous information' available to be pulled out of my website in the first place?

[–] Ssolos@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

"You don't want to drink bleach on a sunny day" could be understood as "It's okay to drink bleach on a cloudy day"

[–] NaibofTabr@infosec.pub -1 points 3 months ago

Um... "could be"...? Literally anything anybody writes could be misinterpreted, so I don't really see the point of this line of argument, nor any value in legislating around it.

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