Conform or be cast out.
I wonder if Google should be split into two companies:
“GOOGLE PATRIOTS” and
“GOOGLE QUISLINGS”.
“GOOGLE PATRIOTS” would be an open platform, which would be able to ban certain WORDS, like the four-letter words we all know, but not “ideas”. “GOOGLE PATRIOTS” would continue to have protections against libel litigation for the articles and messages it publishes.
“GOOGLE QUISLINGS” would be like a private “blog”, where management could ban CONTENT. “GOOGLE QUISLINGS” would NOT have protection against litigation regarding libel and defamation. Therefore, “GOOGLE QUISLINGS” would have an incentive to REALLY “fact-check” the content it publishes and to ban “fake news”.
When the “split” occurs, current employees of Google could decide where they “belong”. As could Google’s current subscribers.