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> Edit: Within the law. To be honest, there is very little I see that should be censored beyond CP.

Self harm, terrorism, revenge porn, fabricated news. Just to name a few.

Internet is very different from what we experienced in the 90s. The ingress barrier guaranteed good content (or at least entertaining content). Now the barrier to content submission has been lowered so much that really anything makes on the Web and this is not good. There are reasons, after all, for having locks on entrance doors, right?

I am quite happy that Google "got the message" from regulators that misinformation is a real danger and we should apply zero tolerance to web polluters.




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