This is an astoundingly cowardly decision. It's akin to holding an election and only revealing the votes of the winner. Shame on Google. A far better solution

This is an astoundingly cowardly decision. It's akin to holding an election and only revealing the votes of the winner. Shame on Google. A far better solution would be allowing more metrics into downvotes. How many of the downvotes come from a Twitter or Reddit post? What's the age of the dislikers? The solution is more transparency, not the suppression of information. I hope there's new solutions, like browser extensions, to fill in the gap. Centralized and unilateral decisions like this only further prove online liberty must fundamentally empower individuals.