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More Orwellian censorship perhaps. I mean how are you going to find "offensive" stuff in the first place unless you were looking for it and want to read about
by unfathomable 10y ago
More Orwellian censorship perhaps.
I mean how are you going to find "offensive" stuff in the first place unless you were looking for it and want to read about it?
This reminds me of the time Google manipulated their SERP to hide holocaust revisionist information.
- e40 10y agoI mean how are you going to find "offensive" stuff in the first place unless you were looking for it and want to read about it? Exactly. And, then, publicize it for karma points somewhere, when the outrage kicks in and it gets lots of eyeballs.
- harryjo 10y ago> This reminds me of the time Google manipulated their SERP to hide holocaust revisionist information. It reminds you of .. the article you are commenting on, today?
- unfathomable 10y agoTheir vanguard stance on antisemitism in general. https://searchenginewatch.com/sew/news/2065217/google-in-controversy-over-top-ranking-for-anti-jewish-site https://searchenginewatch.com/sew/news/2065217/google-in-con... https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/dec/05/google-alters-search-autocomplete-remove-are-jews-evil-suggestion https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/dec/05/google-al...
- duskwuff 10y ago> I mean how are you going to find "offensive" stuff in the first place unless you were looking for it and want to read about it? When Google Autocomplete suggests that users search for offensive queries based on (relatively) inoffensive stems, as explained in the article.