Comment by AStonesThrow

A few years ago, I was fairly convinced that Google Voice was listening and punishing me for hitting "political third rail" keywords during phone calls.

On more than one occasion, I would be in a conversation with a friend of mine and things would turn political, and if I spouted just the right combination of anti-left rhetoric/keywords, our connection would drop right away -- boom.

Now why would Voice do this when other Google properties don't? I mean, they don't filter Gmail or Docs or Photos looking for subversive content and censoring it. YouTube comments, maybe.

But I figured that if they wanted, it was completely possible. Because they have proven and deployed live-transcription, and they're best at English. Not to mention, Voice is sort of a deprecated product that they don't really support. So why not throw a little havoc in there for miscreants?

The reason I was using Voice was to place phone calls from a SIM-less tablet. It seems that Voice insists on using my real phone now for routing any sort of call. So I haven't had opportunity to test the boundaries for years now. Nevertheless, I was not sorry about the possibility of censorship, I was duly chastened, and sorry I've been so brainwashed to lapse into mindless talking-point rhetoric.