Posted on 03/16/2017 1:17:15 PM PDT by davikkm
The problems with this include:
* their de facto standard is conservative = offensive and hate, so conservative content can be put behind this warning label without being outright censored
* their bots for censorship of comments were trained on far left liberal sites’ comment sections like Huffington Post, so you know they have a far left bias against certain conservative sites and will likely flag entire domains this way
* fact checking against approved liberal sites means true stories reported by conservative sources are flagged as false or unverifiable, in short, reinforcing liberal censorship of the stories when they are reported
* when you list the stuff as “offensive”, it turns off the neutral reader in some cases and poisons the well in others - it is a deliberate effort to warn people away and make them think less if they do read/listen without outright censoring
* if content is flagged as hate for espousing conservative views, you could get reinforced censorship by requiring a signed login to prove you’re over 18 ... preventing kids and those who want to protect their privacy from reading it
Why do people even use Google? There are several other search engines out there which aren’t Leftists and which don’t monitor your behavior.
To paraphrase Orwell:
All research is equal.
But some research is more equal.
Google has in the last 6 months gone off the liberal deep end. Time to terminate...
That’s pretty funny they’re doing this. I flagged a Muslim name guy who went all jihad on a post about something. I kill you all and all that and they said they didn’t see anything wrong with it. Lol
Oops sorry, that was FB not google.
Wonder if porn can be considered offensive?
Considering porn consumes most of the bandwidth on the Internet, google have their hands full.
Wonder if you can set up a bot?
or
Don’t forget to also change the “default search engine” setting in your browser. (for “address bar” searches).
I have the Google Chrome browser. If I get rid of it, what are a couple good alternatives?
Mozilla Firefox works for me, with duckduckgo as the default search engine.
[[Google is trying to improve the quality of its search results by directing review teams to flag content that might come across as upsetting or offensive.]]
Hmmm- yup no potential for abuse there whatsoever- (Groups set up to mass flag Christians search terms- conservative terms etc)
Gee- what could possibly go wrong?
DDG says add to Chrome..does it still track you if you do? Thanks!
Nope...Chrome keeps a local (on your PC) history, but DDG does not keep a record of your searches on their server side...see:
https://duck.co/forum/thread/2100/using-duck-duck-go-extension-with-google-chrome-w
Good question, I use Safari & Chrome (with DuckDuckGo as the default search engine) because I abandoned Firefox when they got political (putting pressure on CEO Brendon Eich for past political donations). Eich is now developing the new “Brave” browser which I am watching, but I am not comfortable with the Brave bookmarks management yet...I am hoping future versions have better bookmark management. See: https://www.brave.com
As far as Chrome is concerned is it possible to make privacy better, see;
https://www.howtogeek.com/100361/how-to-optimize-google-chrome-for-maximum-privacy/
and
https://www.google.com/chrome/browser/privacy/index.html
“Epic” and “Tor” are great for privacy, but have downsides for everyday browsing (speed for Tor & features for Epic). See: http://lifehacker.com/the-best-privacy-and-security-focused-web-browsers-1672758270
https://www.torproject.org/projects/torbrowser.html
Good luck! Let me know if you find the ultimate privacy centered browser! ;-)
Are you aware of an engine that collects its own data?
Conservatives need their own vertically-integrated search engine.
Any volunteers?
Note that we are trying to avoid censorship here, not maintain privacy. Privacy is a separate issue.
20 years ago...thought free republic might be that. But, here we are 20 yrs later with the same reliable software and services... Could have been much bigger, and had a commerce section.
FR is great, but Freepers are limited by their ability to search for articles. Google, and those engines that rely on Google, are now actively suffocating our ability to source the truth, and articles that convey the truth.
Speaking of twenty years ago, how about Lycos.com, or has it too become a Google front?
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