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Google Ad Portal Equated “Black Girls” with Porn

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Re: Google Ad Portal Equated “Black Girls” with Porn

#11
Sigh, not this inane shit again.

What percentage of people searching for "black girls" or "asian boys" do you think are looking for porn?

It's a porn query. Porn queries invite porn suggestions. If some of them didn't show porn suggestions, the only difference was whether one term was just below/above whatever automatic threshold Google was using for today's filtering algorithm.

Re: Google Ad Portal Equated “Black Girls” with Porn

#12
The internet is a porn service that also does some other stuff. Google's search suggestions just reflect that, when not otherwise massaged. This is what our collective passion looks like. It isn't pretty, but you can't improve it by changing the mirror.

And it can be very useful to study that mirror to see the shape of the world. If " girls" were protected from knowing about that passion they would be more vulnerable to its danger and less able to leverage its power.

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