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This is a little bit of a worrying precedent. It essentially makes the search engine into a propaganda (or counter propaganda) arm of the governments it operate
by chippy 11y ago
This is a little bit of a worrying precedent. It essentially makes the search engine into a propaganda (or counter propaganda) arm of the governments it operates in. This year it's anti jihadi messages...next year it's searches about the great firewall of china, the following it's anti corporates.
The quote sheds more light on it
"The other one is to make sure when people put potentially damaging search terms into our search engine.. they also find this counter narrative."
So it's down to potentially damaging. What if it's commercially damaging?
- eaandkw 11y agoI agree. Of course using terrorism as the reason so censor search results is easier to swallow for the average person. I mean who wouldn't agree with that right. If you disagree you must be a terrorist. But that is how they get people to accept it. Then google or whoever will slightly twist the results in such a way that will benefit either themselves or someone else. If you agree with that then you should have no problem with someone searching for adoption agencies and being directed to abortion clinics. Not to mention being given news articles that support either opinion. This would work the other way also. I don't know. It sounds evil to me.