Google updating policy for ads on fake news sites
I think this is one of the good ideas that pave the way to hell. What is fake and what is truth? How is Google going to decide? Couple examples: 1&#x2F; Is global warming a huge conspiracy? The president of USA certainly says so. 2&#x2F; News: CIA plotted with terrorist to traffic drugs to US - that must be a hoax, right? 3&#x2F; News: The US govt secretly spread syphilis among black population - this infowars shit must be surely hoax. 4&#x2F; How about US pretending being attacked to start a war? I am talking about Gulf of Tonkin, not 9&#x2F;11. 5&#x2F; The government is reading all your emails and listening to all your phonecalls - bat shit crazy, right?<p>What I am trying to say is that once such mechanism is in place it can go on a slippery slope from there on. Next thing they will decide to filter fake news search results and that very minute they will be subpoenaed to hide something in the name of state security.