At some point (if this hasn’t happened already) things like Siri and Google will become so ubiquitous that their power will exceed the power the of the state over the lives of ordinary people. The internet is a great thing if it provides free and unedited access to all information in the marketplace of ideas. It’s a bad thing if it restricts access to information the elites deem should not be seen. It’s a truly horrible, Orwellian thing if it restricts access to “undesirable” information, while maintaining the illusion of objectivity. That’s something even Stalin’s censors could never accomplished - the average Soviet knew he was being lied too; the Seri searcher who is told “There is no such thing as ‘Bruce Jenner’,” may not.
We are moving very quickly toward dangerous ground. Today, you can’t search Seri on “Bruce Jenner”, or buy confederate flags on Amazon or eBay, civil war games on the Apple App Store, or “white power” music on iTunes.
What happens tomorrow when a google search won’t even return search results for conservative websites?
Are you kidding? Google already filter's searches. I've noticed links disappearing over the years, especially as related to things of which Google disapproves.