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You know throwaway accounts can get banned and their comments "dead" too, right? Try the founder of Vice, let's say you want to listen to his Podcast by just s

You know throwaway accounts can get banned and their comments "dead" too, right? Try the founder of Vice, let's say you want to listen to his Podcast by just searching for his name, good luck doing that on Google, on Yandex it's the 5th result down.

root_axis 6y ago
I looked up "Suroosh Alvi". The results are a little different but IMO pretty similar content-wise, nothing jarring. I do see the 5th result you mentioned on yandex missing on google's front page, but all of the google results seem pretty relevant, and the link you mentioned seems to be hosted on vice.com, so I'm not sure if I buy the idea that they're trying to hide that link. Has this guy recently done something controversial? Searching his name on both engines he just seems like a regular guy? Why do you think google would be censoring him?
- cristoperb 6y ago
  I'm not sure, but they might be talking about one of Vice's other founders, Gavin McInnes, who is known as a far-right provocateur: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gavin_McInnes#Views https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gavin_McInnes#Views
  - Pils 6y ago
    Maybe Tim Pool? Big far-right podcaster, was famously an early intern at Vice, regularly claims to be one of Vice's founders.
    - root_axis 6y ago
      I tried Tim Pool and Gavin Mcinnes both have pretty similar results on both search engines. Besides, google is totally fine with Tim Pool, that guy has one of the biggest political channels on YouTube.
    - mosdave 6y ago
      In absolutely no way is Tim Pool "far-right"; to make such an assertion is an offense both to him as well as to far-rightists.
      - Pils 6y ago
        Tbf, I know very little about Tim Pool. I did see the viral tweet where he claimed the reason he was voting for Trump was because of the Kenosha shooter, which reads very "right accelerationist" to me.
      - root_axis 6y ago
        https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJ2Z07lpGV_m3oQCr9hkqaRJL2ydXYhve https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJ2Z07lpGV_m3oQCr9hkq...

root_axis 6y ago

I looked up "Suroosh Alvi". The results are a little different but IMO pretty similar content-wise, nothing jarring. I do see the 5th result you mentioned on yandex missing on google's front page, but all of the google results seem pretty relevant, and the link you mentioned seems to be hosted on vice.com, so I'm not sure if I buy the idea that they're trying to hide that link. Has this guy recently done something controversial? Searching his name on both engines he just seems like a regular guy? Why do you think google would be censoring him?

cristoperb 6y ago
I'm not sure, but they might be talking about one of Vice's other founders, Gavin McInnes, who is known as a far-right provocateur: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gavin_McInnes#Views https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gavin_McInnes#Views
- Pils 6y ago
  Maybe Tim Pool? Big far-right podcaster, was famously an early intern at Vice, regularly claims to be one of Vice's founders.
  - root_axis 6y ago
    I tried Tim Pool and Gavin Mcinnes both have pretty similar results on both search engines. Besides, google is totally fine with Tim Pool, that guy has one of the biggest political channels on YouTube.
  - mosdave 6y ago
    In absolutely no way is Tim Pool "far-right"; to make such an assertion is an offense both to him as well as to far-rightists.
    - Pils 6y ago
      Tbf, I know very little about Tim Pool. I did see the viral tweet where he claimed the reason he was voting for Trump was because of the Kenosha shooter, which reads very "right accelerationist" to me.
    - root_axis 6y ago
      https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJ2Z07lpGV_m3oQCr9hkqaRJL2ydXYhve https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJ2Z07lpGV_m3oQCr9hkq...