GOOGLE Censorship: what Crowder found

[thegunguy]

Long video here, but the details are included below. Basically Steven Crowder is a conservative comedian, and he's done a bunch of "change my mind" videos you might have seen clips of as they're quite popular. He learned when doing some searches on Youtube that "Steven Crowder Ask me Anything" resulted in zero hits on the first page (something like 75 links) that pointed to him, but lots of links to other channels, including things like local CBS affiliates. Interview covers that and related issues, plus some comedy I don't find very comedic.

The above clip is an excerpt from a longer discussion, here:

Apparently this was quietly "fixed" later:

 

[Taliv]

This reminds me of the 80s and 90s where people were debating whether or not the media is biased. Now there’s no debate. But today the tech companies are claiming their platforms aren’t biased even though 95% of their employees are.

Ultimately the result will be regulation or separate but equal platforms.

 

[CapnMac]

Mind, code like that is how all such censorship works. There's a GUI someplace, and the flunky is told to link a file to a widget.
The widget then applies te rull to the list. Done.

Flunkies are expensive, so you write a bot to replace the flunky. Done, again. Even better, you can use a searchphrase so the bot can create its own list.

Code is easy.