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I have noticed that my searches on certain wrongthink topics bring up a slew of supposed 'rebuttals' to the information I was searching for. I did look at the r

I have noticed that my searches on certain wrongthink topics bring up a slew of supposed 'rebuttals' to the information I was searching for. I did look at the rebuttals, but they were all non-sequiturs coupled with fury and not, well, reason. A little while ago a Socialist website argued they were being demoted in the search results and only typing their explicit domain name alongside the search terms brought up their arguments. I know this is a complex topic far beyond my tiny snippet of text here, but I do not think this is good. I also think this website (its owners and management) has a bias, towards Liberalism. I do not mean 'Democrats'. I mean the political thought of the upper middle class. This isn't a Red Team vs Blue Team thing the way most people seem to assume, there's a third actor. It believes itself correct, rationally and morally but naturally has its own vices. Remember Orwell's discussion of class in 1984!

gnarbarian 9y ago
Ya, more and more large tech companies are oblivious to the practice of not mixing politics with business. It will always alienate and anger a large fraction of your customers. Off the top of my head: Github, Mozilla, and Google all seem to be doing this unfortunately. This is especially ironic to me when measures are taken to ensure some tiny quantity of people don't feel uncomfortable in exchange for angering a huge swath of their customers. The Crockford/Nodevember thing is a perfect example of this: http://atom-morgan.github.io/in-defense-of-douglas-crockford http://atom-morgan.github.io/in-defense-of-douglas-crockford
- observation 9y ago
  > The Crockford/Nodevember thing That's the sort of thought process I expect from a totalitarian regime, not being humorous. What's next? Slashdot looks too similar to a Heil Hitler salute? Peter Thiel made a bunch of observations on this kind of thinking. It's in 1996 if the C-SPAN camera's date is correct, but very relevant I think. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E6cxRYgqfHY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E6cxRYgqfHY
  - gnarbarian 9y ago
    Awesome video. Thanks for sharing it.

gnarbarian 9y ago

Ya, more and more large tech companies are oblivious to the practice of not mixing politics with business. It will always alienate and anger a large fraction of your customers. Off the top of my head: Github, Mozilla, and Google all seem to be doing this unfortunately. This is especially ironic to me when measures are taken to ensure some tiny quantity of people don't feel uncomfortable in exchange for angering a huge swath of their customers. The Crockford/Nodevember thing is a perfect example of this: http://atom-morgan.github.io/in-defense-of-douglas-crockford http://atom-morgan.github.io/in-defense-of-douglas-crockford

observation 9y ago
> The Crockford/Nodevember thing That's the sort of thought process I expect from a totalitarian regime, not being humorous. What's next? Slashdot looks too similar to a Heil Hitler salute? Peter Thiel made a bunch of observations on this kind of thinking. It's in 1996 if the C-SPAN camera's date is correct, but very relevant I think. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E6cxRYgqfHY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E6cxRYgqfHY
- gnarbarian 9y ago
  Awesome video. Thanks for sharing it.