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| Topic | Google censorship cracks down on anti-war left-wing sites, too |
| metroid composite 08/30/17 2:29:17 AM #94: | Not_an_Owl posted... Not really. Google is a private (okay, publicly traded) enterprise and isn't actually under any legal obligation to show you every single possible result to every string of text you type in the search box. They could bury every site that doesn't tithe 30% of its annual revenue to them, and legally there's nothing anyone could do about it (outside of ceasing to use Google products and taking its ads off their own websites). I mean technically legal sure. And due to the recent rescinding of net neutrality rules, Comcast is probably going to do something similar to every site that doesn't tithe them 30%. In the case of Comcast, I believe pretty strongly that there should be a law (title II net neutrality regulations), because in many locations there literally is no other carrier servicing a neighborhood. Google doesn't quite have that level of monopoly; there are in fact other search engines, and just other ways to get to websites in general (typing in the address, getting linked from twitter/reddit/gamefaqs). I don't think a law is necessary here. But it's definitely approaching that borderline of uncomfortable monopoly while presenting itself as an unbiased tool; I just intuitively assume that it merely searches and indexes stuff. If it were systematically burying any website that takes an anti-war stance, as WSWS claimed, yeah, that would be kind-of a problem. Not a problem in need of a law, but maybe a problem that deserved a boycott. --- Cats land on their feet. Toast lands peanut butter side down. A cat with toast strapped to its back will hover above the ground in a state of quantum indecision ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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