I was thinking about that google rule book when responding to this recent hn thing here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18773263 https://news.ycombinator.

I was thinking about that google rule book when responding to this recent hn thing here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18773263 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18773263 about google (Google Is Smashing Multi-Discipline Websites to Combat Fake News), The truly terrible thing is that most people do not know that F and G are censoring to the degrees they are. Most (99.9%?) - don't know that there is a group of human moderators and site rankers that are trying to follow some esoteric multi-page set of guidelines to determine what is shown and what is not shown. We know nothing of these people who are choosing what gets seen or not seen on our state / country / city, etc. What are their political leanings? religious views? How much time are these people given to decide if something you say or think you are going to hear is blocked? How much do these people make for making these important decisions? What is their education level? What about those things for the people who make these sets of rules. Also, how are these things affecting the algorithms? These things matter. The lack of transparency is bad for users and those who think they speaking to their audience.