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It’s only fair. Google goes after conservatives, conservatives go after Google. Don’t want your fortunes to depend on politics? Easy solution: stay out of polit

by 0xbear 9y ago

It’s only fair. Google goes after conservatives, conservatives go after Google. Don’t want your fortunes to depend on politics? Easy solution: stay out of politics. Be neutral and above the fray, declare political discourse (all of it, not just conservative points of view) socially unacceptable at work.

ZeroGravitas 9y ago
Is there any real evidence of Google going after conservatives? Is it not just a result of the fact that younger and better educated people are less likely to be conservative that gives this impression?
- 0xbear 9y ago
  Google is very “Chinese Revolution” on the inside. You can totally have negative career and social consequences for being public at work about your conservative viewpoints and voting preferences. At the same time you can have positive consequences for signaling virtue to liberals. You could say “that’s not Google” doing this, but the thing is, Google totally supports, condones, and encourages this behavior. But those are internal affairs, so you might argue this is irrelevant. But recently this attitude slipped outside with YouTube demonetization of conservative commentators, forced de-trending of popular conservative videos and forced trending of liberal ones? If you want to play this ball, expect defense to get involved.
  - ZeroGravitas 9y ago
    I understand the general concept of what Google might do if it was actually doing this, I was looking for some kind of evidence that it was actually happening in reality. I watch a vlog about EVs on Youtube, and the host of that complains about being demonitized by some new algorithm. I'm fairly sure he's not a fascist that's been put on some list by the Googlestapo, so it seems likely that other people may just be jumping to conclusions.
    - 0xbear 9y ago
      You “understand” everything, it seems. You just choose not to see it.
      - mark_edward 9y ago
        Amazing lack of evidence being provided.

by 0xbear 9y ago

ZeroGravitas 9y ago

Is there any real evidence of Google going after conservatives? Is it not just a result of the fact that younger and better educated people are less likely to be conservative that gives this impression?

0xbear 9y ago
Google is very “Chinese Revolution” on the inside. You can totally have negative career and social consequences for being public at work about your conservative viewpoints and voting preferences. At the same time you can have positive consequences for signaling virtue to liberals. You could say “that’s not Google” doing this, but the thing is, Google totally supports, condones, and encourages this behavior. But those are internal affairs, so you might argue this is irrelevant. But recently this attitude slipped outside with YouTube demonetization of conservative commentators, forced de-trending of popular conservative videos and forced trending of liberal ones? If you want to play this ball, expect defense to get involved.
- ZeroGravitas 9y ago
  I understand the general concept of what Google might do if it was actually doing this, I was looking for some kind of evidence that it was actually happening in reality. I watch a vlog about EVs on Youtube, and the host of that complains about being demonitized by some new algorithm. I'm fairly sure he's not a fascist that's been put on some list by the Googlestapo, so it seems likely that other people may just be jumping to conclusions.
  - 0xbear 9y ago
    You “understand” everything, it seems. You just choose not to see it.
    - mark_edward 9y ago
      Amazing lack of evidence being provided.