Thread · 3 tweets · 12 Nov 2018

It is incredibly disingenuous for Sundar to be equating Europe’s “right to be forgotten” and Chinese censorship. One (in Google’s case) is protection against the digital equivalent of branding as a form of punishment; the other is political control.

Many CEOs have poor understanding of data ethics, but when you’re the CEO of the world’s largest personal data repository, it’s your job to know better. If that’s the sort of argument that Google lobbyists are making, it’s cynically self-serving beyond the pale.

The full interview is at nytimes.com/2018/11/08/bus…. Since it was edited for brevity I wonder if @dgelles heard more on such a brazen statement?