https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=itqRC_0KNjQ

You can skip the diversity part if you want, I'm more focused on the technical aspect of search manipulation which comes later in the video.

The question is not whether Google was but whether Google could.

If everyone switched to DDG, DDG would be the new Google. Wash, rinse, repeat.

Constant upheaval is the only way.

I told him to upload the same video multiple times. IF it only flags SOME, it's basically blacklisting "some" of his content so he can't predict exactly what, while still damaging his ability to communicate. Nerfing without making it obvious.

It should be noted that YT is even more swamped with SJWarriors. It's no wonder they haven't had a new useful feature in like 5 years.

A complete separate management team.

https://www.google.com/search?q=ceo+of+youtube&oq=CEO+of+youtube&aqs=chrome.0.0l6.1632j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

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Joy Villa Is Given 48 Hours to Remove 'Make America Great Again' Song for Violating YouTube Standards

It's like that funny Ben Folds song. The Ascent of Stan. Where a "textbook hippy man." becomes successful becomes the new "man" that oppresses anyone who thinks different. And the cycle continues.

Google demanded Forbes remove article... and then PURGED IT from google searches.

https://boingboing.net/2017/09/01/forbes-removed-article-critica.html

By an independant award winning journalist.

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Also,

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http://gizmodo.com/yes-google-uses-its-power-to-quash-ideas-it-doesn-t-li-1798646437

It just further solidifies the conclusion that Google is willing to suppress factual information it (or its funders) don't openly agree with. There are so many biased left and right wing sites out there, and Google is one that people depend on to be impartial because it is one of the biggest tools to finding information on the Internet.

The news continues:

https://tech.slashdot.org/story/17/09/04/2031251/creator-of-opera-says-google-deliberately-undermined-his-new-vivaldi-web-browser

Basically. Their entire usefulness as a tool is unbiased access to information (based on quality of information, not political threat to your idealogy.) They're moving from a tool for research, to a tool for telling liberals how awesome they are.

I'm a "liberal" and I'm downright bewildered that others aren't as offended. "It's a private company" is the usual distraction of the right. Now liberals can't stop defending... monopolies.

(Remember when liberals protested Wal-Mart crushing competition from mom-and-pop stores? Now they can't get enough Starbucks, Facebook, and Google.)

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Likewise:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15169188

as well as:

https://qz.com/823922/eric-schmidt-played-a-crucial-role-in-team-hillarys-election-tech/

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Holy crap. Duck Duck Go joins the ranks of stupidity. Manipulating autocomplete results.

https://badspot.us/DuckDuckGo-Autocomplete.html

https://www.reddit.com/r/KotakuInAction/comments/6yfncs/duckduckgo_manipulates_autocomplete_results/

My point I raised with my friends was, "The whole point of a search engine is unbiased results. If they manipulate it, how can you ever be assured that your research into a topic isn't also biased?" Like, for an extreme example, but illustrates the point: would you ever visit a library in the Soviet Union to read about capitalism? You could, and it's good to get points even from antagonists (like reading the BBC or Al Jazera for US news to compare-and-contrast the US news bubble). But you still have to take into account their opposing bias. Most people trust their library's selection.

Now, granted, autocomplete doesn't guarantee that they bias their search results. But it's a mark against their impunity. "Just because my doctor stole someone's wallet doesn't GUARANTEE he'll botch my surgery, but do I really want to risk it?"

When I used to go to one doctor, he gave me a speech about how bad he felt for mixed race children having to grow up knowing their parents "did that to them." It was so strange it didn't even sink in that it was racism till a few minutes later. I never went back. And yet, the doctor's comments had nothing to do with his medical performance.

Yet a search engine manipulating autocomplete is almost DIRECTLY related to their search results. They want you to see more (or less) of something as opposed to being an unbiased machine, giving you exactly what you ask for.

Imagine if your phone decided "you've had too much to eat or drink" and refused to show you sites you want to visit to eat or drink at. After all, "it's for the good of society", so why not impose that morality on your phone's local search results?

What the hell happened to Silicon Valley and nerdtypes? When did they go from Free Speech advocates creating unbiased tools, to creating "intelligent" systems with a nanny-state attached?

I'm an adult. I decide what is best for me, and what information I allow into my head.

There's your problem. You can't let Dotslash or any other news organization decide what is best for you.

ChrisKatco, "liberalism" has been completely subverted and corrupted by the powers that be. What is passed off as liberalism now is in essence a regressive cult that worships the "oppressed" as if they were gods and considers the so called straight white men as the devils.

In reality is is just a tool, for pushing politics that favour large corporations. For example, the push to import wage slaves from poorer countries, the push to atomize families, the push to force women to work, the push to suppress free speech, etc. Real liberals are marginalized and labeled "alt right" or even Nazi.

I am not too surprised Google ended up doing this. They are now part of the powers that rule this world. Those who have power of giants, without wisdom of sages, inevitably turn into tyrants.

Edit: I didn't see your last message. I'd say we are in agreement. If you wonder why the spectrum changed, it's as I said above. The powers that be were looking to destroy real liberalism for a long time. They finally realized that a bait and switch subversion would work better. Of course the first tactics was to start funding charities and lobbying with this goal in mind. With the internet, they were finally able to pull this off by using social media and identity politics to divide and conquer the Twitter generation.