Lawmakers hail DOJ antitrust lawsuit against Google as 'long overdue'

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Rockoh22 said:
The tactics google uses to suppress voices they do not like are hidden from us, and can sway not only elections but also the society.
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How would you know that there something hidden, if it is hidden???
 
Zake said:
How would you know that there something hidden, if it is hidden???
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One would not. It may be good to dial that back from “Know” to “Suspect.”

But, in related news, there is another lawyer that concentrates on digital/technologies cases that I follow on YouTube. He recently released his interpretation and thoughts on the case. The video is 84 minutes long, so I don’t expect many (if any) to watch it. Nevertheless, I’m sharing.

 
I agree with this. An entity doesn’t have to be governmental to have excessive power that is beyond the resistance of a society. The people who run them today aren’t necessarily the people who will run them tomorrow. And how are we to know the hearts and ambitions of those people?
 
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There have been many “bombshells” and people Aho have spoken about this already. Yet, nothing is done.

If I remember correct, it was google that had a “Black List” of people to suppress on YouTube. Youtube belongs to Google.

People have come out and told us what we already know. People have been caught on undercover videos. And nothing ever gets done.

Youtube, then adjusts their terms of service and viola, the past was “fixed” We are a nation of laws, but Google is not a nation.
 
Rockoh22 said:
If I remember correct, it was google that had a “Black List” of people to suppress on YouTube. Youtube belongs to Google.
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Whitelisting and blacklisting is fairly normal in digital security. This didn’t stand out as a bombshell. Ex: if the domain PirateIslandMalware.net was found to have a high volume of illegal or harmful material, it might be blacklisted on some services.

That said, I think you might be referring to a story that was in connection with Zachary Vorhies, who was at the time a soon to be ex-Google employee that was let go after he repeatedly released internal confidential documents to external parties (Zach claims his termination was persecution). As it pertains to blacklist, Google maintains list sites and topics that those sights are found to not handle responsibly. When someone does a news search, they won’t find “news” from these sites on these topics.

The documents didn’t contain anything particularly condemning. Though it was presented as such. For example, Google had an internal initiative to get YouTube’s algorithm to stop automatically classifying anything that mentions LGBT as explicit (there was a lawsuit for alleged anti-LGBTQ bias, but I never followed this case and don’t know it’s status). Or, their algorithm would treat African-American Vernacular English as toxic language. Zach saw attempts to address the algorithms classifications of these things as evidence of bias for them.

Zach doesn’t come across as particularly credible. In his post-Google life, he can usually be found promoting conspiracy. The most well known of which is his promotion of “Plandemic.” I hesitate to use the title here, since there have been recent episodes of people showing up in the forum to spam it with the conspiracy film.

That said, I actually view his Twitter feed from time to time. It can be bizarre in an interesting way from time to time.
 
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