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While I agree with their stand on this issue, there is a big level of hypocrisy in these statements since Google is well known for suppressing search results an
by lgleason 8y ago
While I agree with their stand on this issue, there is a big level of hypocrisy in these statements since Google is well known for suppressing search results and banning people on YouTube etc. based on political ideology. So I'd like to see them stand up against that as well.
- Mahn 8y ago> Google is well known for suppressing search results and banning people on YouTube etc. based on political ideology. Can you give some examples of this?
- stevecalifornia 8y agoPragerU is a right-wing channel that Youtube is constantly suppressing by removing videos or demonetizing them. The content is about on-par with what you might hear on a politically slanted news show. It doesn't make sense that Youtube would expend trust capital to harass such an uninteresting channel.
- bad_user 8y agoThat’s just lame whataboutism. Google has to comply with the laws of the countries they operate in. And in fact Google has been nothing but transparent in the requests they got. And yes, that’s why they pulled out of China in the first place, because you can’t operate against the law. I haven’t seen other software or hardware companies pulling out of China. Microsoft and Apple are certainly happy to do business there and nobody condemned them for it. Microsoft for example was accused of censoring Chinese search results in Bing globally. Mind you, that other companies are as bad or worse is not the argument I’m making. What I am saying is that I hope you apply the same standards to all the companies you’re interacting with.