not so long ago people regarded it as a conspiracy theory that google et al censored their content
not so long ago people regarded it as a conspiracy theory that google et al censored their content
we used to give china shit for doing this the censorship of the internet is the worst thing to happen to american liberty norms in the last decade and the speed at which its occurred has been breathtaking
@eigenrobot he's given $450,000 to democrats since 2016 and he likes stuff on Twitter like the tweet on the right obviously a neutral person you can trust to do this work
@eigenrobot Yeah that’s about right
@eigenrobot We’re at the “this is good aktually” stage here. As with inflation, as with privacy, as with freedom of movement, as with censorship.
@eigenrobot Regrettable to see a tech titan put its thumb on the scales like this when they could just use the simple, fair, bias-free algorithm for ranking search results that everyone knows.
@eigenrobot This seems to be confusing causes and effects. Google at its founding returned less conspiracy content than competitors because PageRank finds authorities better than random sampling. This work is just extensions of that principle.
@eigenrobot > "it's a bit self-serving of me to repost this study, but-" ah, the weakness of all comic-book villainry: the urge to monologue about your evil plans
@eigenrobot Fortifying my prior that tech companies acting as the de facto governments of the internet is the prime source of illiberalism in the world today
@eigenrobot The Anon urge to learn more about yandex
@eigenrobot what do you do when your "conspiracy-free" results are the result of conspiracy?
@eigenrobot People are slowly opting out of Google, all their services have viable alternatives. They don't have the network effects of Facebook/IG where all your friends are there. You can just leave
@eigenrobot Naturally those search results have been suppressed
@eigenrobot reddit.com/r/reddit.com/c… Remember this? The first big gaffe of "did you mean" where people got really upset that google suggested you meant "he invented" if you searched "she invented"?
@eigenrobot Good thing we can trust the experts to properly differentiate between what real and whats a conspiracy theory! :^)
@eigenrobot There is no censorship. There is minimal. Censorship is good actually. Rinse repeat
@eigenrobot The alternative press might have to revert to print on paper.
@eigenrobot pushing me over to finally switch to duck duck go
@eigenrobot There was a (sociologist?) Guy who was raving about Google more or less thought controlling by managing top search results and he had this whole thing about the impact of lists on perception and I don't know what happened to him or what his name was (was around 2016 election?)
@eigenrobot Don't be evil Its for your safety What's evil again?
