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I mean technically yes, but that is pretty much fear mongering. That is like fearing the government because they could delete your social security number. Neith
by soared 9y ago
I mean technically yes, but that is pretty much fear mongering. That is like fearing the government because they could delete your social security number. Neither would ever do it, despite it being possible. The ramifications would be absurd.
- Clubber 9y agoThere was an article on here where the author said Google pushed a critical article they wrote down to the bottom of the charts. Found it. https://gizmodo.com/yes-google-uses-its-power-to-quash-ideas-it-doesn-t-li-1798646437 https://gizmodo.com/yes-google-uses-its-power-to-quash-ideas... the most disturbing part of the experience was what came next: Somehow, very quickly, search results stopped showing the original story at all. As I recall it—and although it has been six years, this episode was seared into my memory—a cached version remained shortly after the post was unpublished, but it was soon scrubbed from Google search results.
- stale2002 9y agoIf the government did that I could sue them and win. If Google started censoring certain political ideas or certain people, there is zero recourse. There are zero ramifications, unless I am already someone important and powerful. A whole lot of our lives is controlled by unaccountable, powerful entities that could legally ruin your life because it is their platform. But apparently nobody cares about that because "freedom of speech doesn't mean freedom from consequences".