Are Conservatives Prepared to be Censored?

Townhall ^ | Sep 18, 2017 | Albert Eisenberg

[joma89]

For those Freepers who still use google, could you please explain to me why you do? I have been aware of this kind of bias from google for some time. Thanks.

JoMa

[G Larry]

Broadest search, best results.

The risk and consequences will need to be more severe before there is reform.

[SaveFerris]

There's social engineering all over - it's blatant on TV commercials, liberal Yahoo, etc. It comes off as a globalism push (to me anyways).

[odawg]

“Are conservatives prepared to be censored?”

A more important question: Are conservative prepared to submit to being censored? If there is no submission, there is no censorship.

[ForYourChildren]

American Inventors googled!

See what happens

https://www.google.com/search?source=hp&q=american+inventors&oq=american+inventors&gs_l=psy-ab.3..0i131k1j0l3.934.3224.0.4284.18.14.0.0.0.0.270.2283.0j7j4.11.0....0...1.1.64.psy-ab..7.11.2281....0.ahZyT8L7mCE

[Red Badger]

Are liberals prepared to be shot?..................

[Paladin2]

Google are evil. Increasingly so by the day.

[robroys woman]

I used to love the way search engines worked. You could look for an exact phrase or just some of the words, or ignore sites that had a certain word. I found out you can still do that with google, but it was hard to find out how.

I just tried it. First I searched on “white couple”. I then searched on “white couple -black” and got much “whiter” results.

I remember a friend sold a car on Craigslist about 10 years ago and at the bottom of his ad for his Mustang he said, “not Honda, Toyota, Mercedes...” so that searches for pretty much any brand would find his car.

[Army Air Corps]

They included Clockmed.

[yuleeyahoo]

This goes beyond Google. You get pretty much the same result on all search engines.

[Olog-hai]

Using quotation marks in a Google search narrows it down to the exact phrase, and using the dash as a minus sign removes words from the search. So a Google image search for "American inventors" -African turns up Herman Hollerith as the first image hit, Henry Ford as the second, Alexander Graham Bell as the third and Benjamin Franklin as the fourth.

[Steve_Seattle]

I did an experiment and Googled "white couple." The first 43 images that came up were:

white couple = 12
mixed race couple = 11
ambiguous = 8
white couple with black kid = 3
gay white couple with black kid = 1
Asian couple = 1
black couple with white kid = 1
black and white kids (no adults) = 1
black couple = 2
black and white lesbian couple = 1
black couple with white kid = 1
two black men (gay?) = 1

Very mixed results for a search for "white couple."

[Hugh the Scot]

Want to be truly impressed? Google search the phrase “advice for white girls”..

[Jack Black]

Wikipedia search "white pride", "black pride", "gay pride", Latino pride".

One is a pathology. The others are great. Any guess which one?

[BubbaJunebug]

Yep duck duck go...search American Inventors...literally all black photos. White couple a bit less than google

[a fool in paradise]

Pssst. the same crappy results come up when searching with DuckDuckGo.com.

Google is lousy and so is the “alternative”.

[ctdonath2]

“Somebody at Google is skewing the queries”

Such accusations have been leveled at Google almost as long as it has been around. Every time, it’s shown that the results are just a matter of who’s searching and who’s choosing which result.

In this case, I suspect that “white couple” is probably being searched largely by people who both tend to view content dominated by blacks, and when presented with a range of options for that search tend to pick the blacks. (Consider: if you do the experiment yourself, you’re probably going to search for “white couple” and then click on a black couple - reinforcing the automated results.) In contrast, people who supposedly would tend to select the white results, well, I actually suspect they won’t be searching for the racist term “white couple” at all.

Remember, there’s a whole lotta people out there who don’t think like you. What Google tends to show for results tends to reflect what THEY are searching for & selecting.

[Garth Tater]

"Somebody at Google is skewing the queries,"

If they weren't doing it some other company would have been put in that place to do so. In our world today, once you pass a certain size, you are only allowed to make a profit if you are helping to advance the Progressive cause.

“The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country."

"In almost every act of our daily lives, whether in the sphere of politics or business, in our social conduct or our ethical thinking, we are dominated by the relatively small number of persons...who understand the mental processes and social patterns of the masses. It is they who pull the wires which control the public mind.”

                                   - quote from Edward Bernays in his book "Propaganda"

[mulligan]

Been happening for a long time. Poor question.

[Garth Tater]

"Such accusations have been leveled at Google almost as long as it has been around. Every time, it’s shown that the results are just a matter of who’s searching and who’s choosing which result."

Yes, all completely innocent.    I-Q-Tel  provided Google with their first round of funding. They were dirty right from the start.