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I think the issue is that the policy is unevenly applied, and Google's response to it was to obfuscate what little transparency there is in the process: > Furt
by danso 6y ago
I think the issue is that the policy is unevenly applied, and Google's response to it was to obfuscate what little transparency there is in the process:
> Further, all social justice keywords on list we used that included the word Muslim were blocked for ad placement searches, including such innocuous phrases as “Muslim fashion” and “Muslim parenting.” Their counterparts, “Christian fashion” and “Christian parenting,” were not blocked when we checked in November—nor were the anti-Muslim hate phrases “White sharia” and “civilization jihad.”
- zepto 6y agoThe problem is that we don’t know if it is unevenly applied because we don’t know how often those unblocked terms are actually used. The article does a bunch of interesting investigation and quantification but the only point it actually makes is based purely on innuendo.