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Do Not Trust Google

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Re: Do Not Trust Google

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Post by mgkimsal »

"If you believe in a free and open internet then you have to agree this is wrong."

I don't have to agree. Perhaps it was 'wrong' before that Breitbart ranked as high as they did earlier.

I can still go to Breitbart.com - no one is stopping me from going there. No one is stopping them from setting up their servers, hosting their content, and doing all that stuff. They don't get as much 'free' exposure via google as they used to. Other sites now get more visibility. So what? If BB kept their 'visibility' in the search index, every search result they show up in is taking space from a different site that might have shown up instead. Why are they owed anything from google? Google changes their algorithms, and there's more content to compete with too.

If we make some sort of assumption that google's algorithms get modified or perhaps simply adapt to the audience's searches, perhaps... there's less appetite for Breitbart content and ideas across google's user base, and them ranking lower years down the road isn't some grand left-wing conspiracy, but a company serving the needs and desires of its users?

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Post by cowpig »

29athrowaway wrote: post #9

The world would be a better place without Breitbart and Stormfront. If you think otherwise, leave a reply here. I would love to hear why you disagree. Otherwise you are just a closet racist.

Maybe edit this to remove the last statement?

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Post by biggidywiggidy »

29athrowaway wrote: post #9

The world would be a better place without Breitbart and Stormfront. If you think otherwise, leave a reply here. I would love to hear why you disagree. Otherwise you are just a closet racist.

The world is definitely a better place with both of these, for no other reason than to annoy the shit out of arrogant and closed minded racists like you.

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Post by burke_holland »

cowpig wrote: post #10
joe-collins wrote: post #7

> You don't have to agree with them politically to see that Google is applying different standards to conservative content than to more liberal content. Or, perhaps a balanced set of standards is being applied, and the author's Overton Window is off-kilter, and the supposedly "(merely) conservative" content described therein remains outside of the actually-balanced metric for search ranking? (Granting, yes, perfect b…

Yeah... using Breitbart as an example was really unconvincing. I recently spent an hour of my life trying to convince an acquaintance that a video she found on breitbart claiming the "Frontline Doctors of America" were fighting to expose a conspiracy to suppress a 100% effective covid-19 cure was faked. That's not "conservative" content, that's propaganda that puts people people in imminent physical danger.

This is exactly the problem, though. By suppressing this stuff, they validate the narrative that “THEY don’t want you to know the truth” (whoever the hell they is). This stuff doesn’t go away. It just migrates to different platforms and every time it’s taken down it gains credibility among the faithful.

This is the current paradox that plagues us.

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Post by 29athrowaway »

cowpig wrote: post #12
29athrowaway wrote: post #9

The world would be a better place without Breitbart and Stormfront. If you think otherwise, leave a reply here. I would love to hear why you disagree. Otherwise you are just a closet racist.

Maybe edit this to remove the last statement?

As a person that has been spitted on and yelled at by racists, including one guy wearing an infowars t-shirt, I stand by what I said.

Stormfront is a cesspool of racism and bigotry.

Breitbart is a cesspool of misinformation.

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Post by joshuamorton »

burke_holland wrote: post #17
cowpig wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah... using Breitbart as an example was really unconvincing. I recently spent an hour of my life trying to convince an acquaintance that a video she found on breitbart claiming the "Frontline Doctors of America" were fighting to expose a conspiracy to suppress a 100% effective covid-19 cure was faked. That's not "conservative" content, that's propaganda that puts people people in imminent physical danger.

This is exactly the problem, though. By suppressing this stuff, they validate the narrative that “THEY don’t want you to know the truth” (whoever the hell they is). This stuff doesn’t go away. It just migrates to different platforms and every time it’s taken down it gains credibility among the faithful. This is the current paradox that plagues us.

> it gains credibility among the faithful.

Among whom it already had enough credibility.

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