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FTA: "These problems have proliferated because of the concentration of power in the hands of a few platforms – including Facebook, Google, and Twitter – which “
by draugadrotten 9y ago
FTA: "These problems have proliferated because of the concentration of power in the hands of a few platforms – including Facebook, Google, and Twitter – which “control which ideas and opinions are seen and shared”."
They are indeed very active in removing ideas and opinions which are deemed unsavory. A recent example in from our neighbour country, Sweden.
"Google is facing criticism in Sweden for its failure to prevent anti-Semitic material from topping searches featuring the term “Jews in Sweden.”" https://www.timesofisrael.com/swedish-jews-complain-google-searches-returning-anti-semitic-results/ https://www.timesofisrael.com/swedish-jews-complain-google-s...
"Journalist Willy Silberstein, editor-in-chief Helle Klein and former TV4 CEO Jan Scherman are some Swedish Jews who are on an anti-Semitic list online. Their legal representative has reported the list to Google for more than a month that it should not appear in search results by their name. Only now – after Expressen and DN's audits – Google starts backing and promises to remove 24 people from the list from their search results." https://tech2.org/sweden/google-starts-backing-after-criticism-of-anti-semitic-hatlist-news/ https://tech2.org/sweden/google-starts-backing-after-critici...
I think the above serves well to illustrate the issue of weaponizing the web. The nazis are using the web as a weapon to list celebrity jews. The jews on the list are using the web as a weapon to wield power over Google's decisions and actions. Google is the weapon used by all the groups involved.
- zaarn 9y agoI wonder how long until governments start "google search result page 1" wars against each other (though I think China would have a running start in this one). Country X demands google can't show results about Country Y anywhere and Country Y demands google push results to page 1 that make Country X look bad.
- draugadrotten 9y agoGoogle itself is a player in this war since the search results for Country X when inside Country Y is different than when searching for Country X inside Country X. (aka "localized results") I would be surprised if this capability is not already weaponized by CIA in the attempts to win hearts and minds of countries being liberated.
- swman 9y agoAs long as its right leaning stuff that's censored that's okay.
- jungletek 9y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_they_came_.. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_they_came_...
- scrupulusalbion 9y ago>Google is the weapon used by all the groups involved. This also shows that Google is a power-deficient gate-keeper, because they are buckling under pressure over search results. Somewhat OT: Wikipedia has a list of Swedish Jews[0], but Helle Klein, for instance, is not on that list. She does have a Wikipedia article and it clearly has her on a different list of Jews.[2] In fact, Wikipedia has a list of lists of lists of Jews.[3] Wikipedia probably gets zero flak over this fact, because there is zero neo-nazi rhetoric surrounding the lists. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Swedish_Jews https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Swedish_Jews [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Jews_in_Sweden https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Jews_in_Sweden [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helle_Klein https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helle_Klein [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lists_of_Jews https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lists_of_Jews