http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_IP-17-1784_en.htm

Honestly till they are paying fines like that they arent really ruling.
Plus when i want to know news im not searching on google but on my usual newspapers.

Here I've been seeing them say a company's only obligation is to make profit.

I don't think Google has to worry about profit anymore. I think they are way past the point where they COULD continually lose money.

Like I said above, they are NOW more into the: "whoever controls the information...wins", side of the game, from here on out.

Google has clearly shown that it is anti-free speech from a philosophical point of view. I never understood the left's desire to silence people. There are several ways society can react to hate speech without silencing the opposition and I wish we took those routes.

I think it's pretty shitty and people should be able to say what they want.

The book burners are marching in Boston

No, not bullshit. Nothing about that quote of me is even remotely close to being false.

If you look at the world with even a hint of real objectivity, and distance yourself from any one particular side, politically or otherwise, you begin to see things quite clearly, and often without any major biases clogging your arteries, so to speak.

The thing is, with seeing most things in the world for what and how they really are, you realize nothing is as it seems (quite the understatement, I know), and that while this world is a relatively peaceful place when you consider how things once were, you gain a sense of how dangerous it still is in a number of places (many of which are otherwise thought to be safe).

Aside from literal, immediate existential threats to one's physical self, which I'm aware you weren't likely referencing, there are too equally harmful ideas out there, and likewise, right here at home (in the U.S.), which are unfortunately allowed to exist and be circulated over social media, etc, but that's obviously known as freedom of speech, which clearly works both ways, so there's that.

In a perfect free market world, I would shit money.

Yes.

I know some people who would argue that certain conservative views, like banning muslims for example, indirectly leads to more violence against muslims by racists. The argument is that it normalizes views that muslims are bad which in turn makes violence against them seem okay. So it's not that they want to silence people that disagree with them, but that they want to prevent people from being physically armed by idiots.

I don't agree with this viewpoint, I'm just explaining it.