This week's questions:

  1. We are presented with two alternatives to Google’s approach to shaping search results—in the U.S., “free speech protections are afforded to all kinds of speech, including hate speech and racist or sexist depiction of people and communities” (page 46), resulting in a higher burden of proof of harm, while in France, it is against the law to include racial identity markers in databases (page 42). How do you view the role of the search engine as content moderator?
  2. Commodification (of knowledge, of information, of search, of search subjects, etc.) is a recurring theme in this chapter. Thoughts?
  3. How does this chapter affect the way you think about or interact with your Google products?

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