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You know this how? Because you were that guy?
by akhmatova 5y ago
You know this how? Because you were that guy?
- mellosouls 5y agoA quick Google (ironically) confirms this has happened, beyond the anecdotal evidence of people (including me) who remember it on several occasions. https://www.mediaite.com/news/ex-google-engineer-says-glitch-blocking-websites-including-drudge-breitbart-could-have-revealed-a-mysterious-list/ https://www.mediaite.com/news/ex-google-engineer-says-glitch... I'm not making any comment on the theory in the article, but it has certainly happened. Edit: more context in thread here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31161790 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31161790
- sjtindell 5y agoMellosouls posted a link to a toxic source, and the article doesn’t even have anything in it except empty speculation based on nonsense. Brutal. Either the psyops have reached HN or the level of intellectual honesty about these topics is trash. Or both.
- mellosouls 5y agoI lifted the source indirectly from Google's own results (it was linked to from the Mail online), I have no idea of the general toxicity or otherwise of the website itself.
- mellosouls 5y agoUpdate: here's a Twitter thread linked from Google's Tweet denying any bias in the incident. Make of it what you will. https://twitter.com/CharlieNash/status/1285612797028700160 https://twitter.com/CharlieNash/status/1285612797028700160