Yep. And keep in mind that Google can't just sit back and wait for a court to order something removed; Google has to pay Google employees to imitate these court precedents.
I don't know how the justice in US works, but I do think precedents matter there. Is it possible for others to sue Google using this case as an legal argument?
I think the presence of court cases, frivolous or not, is completely orthogonal to Google's content moderation policies. An appeal to "this is pending in court" is a deeply unprincipled argument; plenty of things that a court would certainly countenance are forbidden by Google's policies.
Great. Now we're gonna see Google take down even more stuff just because it might possibly end up involved in some court case that they get fined over.
We are not talking about an ordinary situation. We’re talking about a situation where Google has been placed under a retention order because of a lawsuit.
This is not gonna work out well for Google at all because this kind of BS really pisses judges off and also looks really bad to juries if it makes it that far.
I bet Google will pull some of their lawyers on this. The precedent that will be set by cases like this is pretty important for their technology especially while it's in its infancy.
You're right and it makes sense but how is someone like Google supposed to handle these requests case by case? Or are they supposed to hire an army of lawyers and send thousands of requests to be decided by the courts?
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