<story><title>Google Docs will “warn you away from inappropriate words”</title><url>https://twitter.com/pmarca/status/1516463416885399554</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>codesternews</author><text>This is pretty scary. Inclusivity fine but what else can they push and censor.&lt;p&gt;I am from different country and most of the words are gender neutral which in US pretty big deal like (landlord, guys - which is gender neutral in our country).&lt;p&gt;Its like pushing your culture on different countries. I don&amp;#x27;t want to see the Americanisation on our country cultures.&lt;p&gt;There is no issues of inclusivity in our country. Google is pushing their agenda on different groups, cultures and countries,&lt;p&gt;This is how it starts.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;twitter.com&amp;#x2F;thecitywanderer&amp;#x2F;status&amp;#x2F;1516176983549530122&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;twitter.com&amp;#x2F;thecitywanderer&amp;#x2F;status&amp;#x2F;15161769835495301...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item><item><author>2bitencryption</author><text>I think there&amp;#x27;s a valid concern with this; a concern which is not necessarily distilled down to &amp;quot;big brother&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;corporate overlords&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;Google is so large that any stance they take, no matter how minuscule, has immense influence.&lt;p&gt;Case in point, from this article:
&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.nytimes.com&amp;#x2F;2018&amp;#x2F;08&amp;#x2F;02&amp;#x2F;technology&amp;#x2F;google-maps-neighborhood-names.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.nytimes.com&amp;#x2F;2018&amp;#x2F;08&amp;#x2F;02&amp;#x2F;technology&amp;#x2F;google-maps-ne...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; For decades, the district south of downtown and alongside San Francisco Bay here was known as either Rincon Hill, South Beach or South of Market. This spring, it was suddenly rebranded on Google Maps to a name few had heard: the East Cut.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; The peculiar moniker immediately spread digitally, from hotel sites to dating apps to Uber, which all use Google’s map data. The name soon spilled over into the physical world, too. Real-estate listings beckoned prospective tenants to the East Cut. And news organizations referred to the vicinity by that term.&lt;p&gt;My point is, it might seem like a small, inconspicuous change.  But at Google-scale, this actually has an impact on the real world, and personally I don&amp;#x27;t feel confident with Google deciding what words are the correct words.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>colpabar</author><text>&amp;gt;I don&amp;#x27;t want to see the Americanisation on our country cultures.&lt;p&gt;This is something that I just cannot reconcile with the notion that all these measures are meant to make things more inclusive. All I see are groups of rich and powerful people telling people &amp;quot;below them&amp;quot; how to behave, and makings tons of money doing it. D&amp;amp;I is a grift.</text></comment>
<story><title>Google Docs will “warn you away from inappropriate words”</title><url>https://twitter.com/pmarca/status/1516463416885399554</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>codesternews</author><text>This is pretty scary. Inclusivity fine but what else can they push and censor.&lt;p&gt;I am from different country and most of the words are gender neutral which in US pretty big deal like (landlord, guys - which is gender neutral in our country).&lt;p&gt;Its like pushing your culture on different countries. I don&amp;#x27;t want to see the Americanisation on our country cultures.&lt;p&gt;There is no issues of inclusivity in our country. Google is pushing their agenda on different groups, cultures and countries,&lt;p&gt;This is how it starts.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;twitter.com&amp;#x2F;thecitywanderer&amp;#x2F;status&amp;#x2F;1516176983549530122&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;twitter.com&amp;#x2F;thecitywanderer&amp;#x2F;status&amp;#x2F;15161769835495301...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item><item><author>2bitencryption</author><text>I think there&amp;#x27;s a valid concern with this; a concern which is not necessarily distilled down to &amp;quot;big brother&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;corporate overlords&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;Google is so large that any stance they take, no matter how minuscule, has immense influence.&lt;p&gt;Case in point, from this article:
&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.nytimes.com&amp;#x2F;2018&amp;#x2F;08&amp;#x2F;02&amp;#x2F;technology&amp;#x2F;google-maps-neighborhood-names.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.nytimes.com&amp;#x2F;2018&amp;#x2F;08&amp;#x2F;02&amp;#x2F;technology&amp;#x2F;google-maps-ne...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; For decades, the district south of downtown and alongside San Francisco Bay here was known as either Rincon Hill, South Beach or South of Market. This spring, it was suddenly rebranded on Google Maps to a name few had heard: the East Cut.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; The peculiar moniker immediately spread digitally, from hotel sites to dating apps to Uber, which all use Google’s map data. The name soon spilled over into the physical world, too. Real-estate listings beckoned prospective tenants to the East Cut. And news organizations referred to the vicinity by that term.&lt;p&gt;My point is, it might seem like a small, inconspicuous change.  But at Google-scale, this actually has an impact on the real world, and personally I don&amp;#x27;t feel confident with Google deciding what words are the correct words.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>slg</author><text>&amp;gt;Its like pushing your culture on different countries.&lt;p&gt;I think the original point was there is no way for Google not to do this. Sometimes cultures have opposing viewpoints which makes a neutral decision impossible.  One obvious example is with displaying disputed borders in Google Maps. Any decision there is going to be political.  Lots of people are going to be upset with Google for making the wrong decision regardless of which decisions they make, but I think that anger is misplaced. The real problem is Google has the power to make this decision for too many people.  Companies like Google are simply too powerful and need to be broken up.</text></comment>