Google Drive bans distribution of “misleading content”
The road to hell is paved with &quot;good intentions&quot;. We desperately need to find a globally adoptable alternative to google and the services that it provides. Docs, Sheets, Drive, etc. are fantastic services in that they work really well on a massive scale. However, Google&#x27;s increasing role as an arbiter of right vs wrong and a steward of information puts too much power into the hands of one corporation, whose best interests are provably not aligned with that of the general population.<p>I&#x27;ve been working as a SWE at google (in ads...) for over two years and I&#x27;ve really started to loathe it over the past year. The pay is fantastic and it&#x27;s really hard to walk away from that, but the idea that they are not (or at least no longer) contributing to the better world that I think we need, has started to weigh heavier and heavier on me...<p>We should be able to implement services like these, that are free of ads, on globally distributed infrastructure, with no central authority, to have truly free-flowing information.<p>edit: added quotes around &quot;good intentions&quot;