Let's flip the hypothetical -- if someone googles for suicide info and scrolls past the hotline info and ends up killing themselves anyway, should google be on the hook?

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knowannoes 6 days ago | parent | next [-]

I don't know. In that scenario, has any google software sold as being intelligent produced text encouraging and providing help with the act?

	▲	podgietaru 6 days ago \| parent [-]
		I don't know this for sure, but also I'm fairly sure that google make a concerted effort to not expose that information. Again, from experience. It's very hard to google a painless way to kill yourself. Their SEO ranking actually ranks pages about suicide prevention very high.

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mothballed 6 days ago | parent | prev [-]

The solution that is going to be found, is they will put some age controls, probably half-heartedly, and call it a day. I don't think the public can stomach the possible free speech limitations on consenting adults to use a dangerous tool that might cause them to hurt themselves.