Comment by tialaramex
5 years ago
I guess just entirely inventing the slope and start points as well as a predicted trajectory is a new achievement in "slippery slope" arguments. Congratulations.
More seriously, maybe invent imaginary third parties rather than arbitrarily assigning your imagined bad motives and awful consequences to real people who did none of what you've suggested?
Google could, if they wanted, just add a new category to Safe Browsing. They could call it "Arbitrary censorship" or "Nazis are bad" or whatever you want. There are already several categories which even use slightly different parameters for the core technology so this wouldn't substantially change the system and yet would add much more flexibility if you wanted (as you might well) to protect against Phishing whether from Nazis or not, while still visiting a popular web site organising the overthrow of American democracy.
How is talking about mechanisms for taking parler.com offline "entirely inventing the slope"? It was taken offline by its cloud provider and its apps were removed. Google was even involved in the takedown. Nothing outlandish is being discussed here.
As for "bad motives and awful consequences", what are you talking about? Is wanting to take parler.com offline an objectively "bad motive"? Is succeeding in that endeavor an "awful consequence"? This is the heart of the problem: Weighing consequences is hard when faced with real threats. So when the two consequences are "parler.com becomes inaccessible" and "the integrity of the Google Safe Browsing URL list is slightly compromised", I think it's at least possible that executives would decide to compromise the list.