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Do Not Trust Google

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Re: Do Not Trust Google

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

I agree with both those statements, but I don't agree with your preemptive ad hominem attack against people who disagree with you.

Re: Do Not Trust Google

#22
post #10

> 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.

How was that 3 hours of lectures by doctors faked, I'm curious. What about it was fake, and what about it was putting anyone In danger?

Re: Do Not Trust Google

#23
post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

I have been spat on called a "white cunt" by a person of color for just sitting on a bus doing nothing.

However, black people can't be racist. And all white people are racist. And if a white person denies it, it is proof that they are racist.

So it wasn't his racism. It was entirely my fault for being white. I should have been born to parents of different skin color. Then no matter what I did I wouldn't be a racist.

Re: Do Not Trust Google

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post #22
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.

How was that 3 hours of lectures by doctors faked, I'm curious. What about it was fake, and what about it was putting anyone In danger?

If this is an honest question, Snopes has a good rundown: https://www.snopes.com/news/2020/07/30/americas-frontline-do...

The video puts people in danger by telling them to not wear masks and instead take zinc.

Re: Do Not Trust Google

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

I have been spat on called a "white cunt" by a person of color for just sitting on a bus doing nothing. However, black people can't be racist. And all white people are racist. And if a white person denies it, it is proof that they are racist. So it wasn't his racism. It was entirely my fault for being white. I should have been born to parents of different skin color. Then no matter what I did I wouldn't be a racist.

Let's dissect this a little bit...

> I have been spat on called a "white cunt" ... for just sitting on a bus doing nothing.

I am sorry that happened to you, that sucks.

> by a person of color

If that person was incited to attack you because of something they read online, would this world be better if those websites did not exist? Or at least, if they were not returned as search results in Google? I think the answer to that is yes.

> However, black people can't be racist.

Everyone can be racist regardless of race.

> And all white people are racist.

It is stupid to deny that being a racist was normal and socially accepted until just few decades ago, and that a portion of the population today do not agree with desegregation, and do not agree with diversity. Are those the majority? No, but they do exist and their numbers are significant enough to be a problem.

> I should have been born to parents of different skin color. Then no matter what I did I wouldn't be a racist.

Wrong conclusion.

Re: Do Not Trust Google

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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.

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There is a difference between being conservative and being a fascist/nationalist.

Breitbart is a textbook example of fascist propaganda.

"Fascism is a form of political behavior marked by obsessive preoccupation with community decline, humiliation, or victimhood and by compensatory cults of unity, energy, and purity, in which a mass-based party of committed nationalist militants, working in uneasy but effective collaboration with traditional elites, abandons democratic liberties and pursues with redemptive violence and without ethical or legal restraints goals of internal cleansing and external expansion"

- Robert Owen Paxton, American historian

Note the part about "community decline, humiliation and victimhood", then go to breitbart.com and check what the headlines are about. Checkmate, fascists.

Re: Do Not Trust Google

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> There's plenty of evidence to suggest that Google is manually making these decisions to block conservative websites So show us the evidence.

I'll add some more sources to support that claim, but the main one would be about the Google exec meeting after Trump got elected. https://money.cnn.com/2018/09/13/media/google-leaked-video-t...

Haven't vetted this source but I believe it's the right one

Re: Do Not Trust Google

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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.

Yeah, I agree with this statement. I'm actually not very familiar with Breitbart's content so I don't know if it's really a conspiracy website as is being suggested here. But yes I believe censoring these websites does add legitimacy to them

Re: Do Not Trust Google

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invidio.us appears to be shutting down, which is a shame, as I was happy to learn there was a sort of startpage.com for youtube.

Yeah that's unfortunate. Seems like the maintainer is feeling burned out.

invidiou.site is another instance you can import your invidious data to

Re: Do Not Trust Google

#30
post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

I mean, yes, Stormfront is extremely racist. You could be right about Breitbart, but imo there's definitely misinformation coming from every angle of the political spectrum. After all, division and hatred sells. I do wish we could all get along
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