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Are Conservatives Prepared to be Censored?
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| Sep 18, 2017
| Albert Eisenberg
Posted on 09/19/2017 10:36:53 AM PDT by joma89
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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
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posted on
09/19/2017 10:36:54 AM PDT
by
joma89
To: joma89
Broadest search, best results.
The risk and consequences will need to be more severe before there is reform.
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posted on
09/19/2017 10:40:12 AM PDT
by
G Larry
(There is no great virtue in bargaining with the Devil)
To: joma89
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).
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posted on
09/19/2017 10:40:42 AM PDT
by
SaveFerris
(Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
To: joma89
“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.
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posted on
09/19/2017 10:41:00 AM PDT
by
odawg
To: joma89
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posted on
09/19/2017 10:41:24 AM PDT
by
ForYourChildren
(Christian Education [ RomanRoadsMedia.com - Classical Christian Approach to Homeschool ])
To: joma89
Are liberals prepared to be shot?..................
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posted on
09/19/2017 10:41:28 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Road Rage lasts 5 minutes. Road Rash lasts 5 months!.....................)
To: joma89
Google are evil. Increasingly so by the day.
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posted on
09/19/2017 10:42:43 AM PDT
by
Paladin2
(No spelchk nor wrong word auto substition on mobile dev. Please be intelligent and deal with it....)
To: G Larry
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.
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posted on
09/19/2017 10:52:22 AM PDT
by
robroys woman
(So you're not confused, I'm male.)
To: ForYourChildren
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posted on
09/19/2017 10:58:12 AM PDT
by
Army Air Corps
(Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
To: ForYourChildren
This goes beyond Google. You get pretty much the same result on all search engines.
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posted on
09/19/2017 11:01:01 AM PDT
by
yuleeyahoo
(Those are my principles, and if you do not like them...well I have others. - Groucho Marx)
To: joma89; All
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.
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posted on
09/19/2017 11:25:16 AM PDT
by
Olog-hai
("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
To: joma89
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."
To: joma89
Want to be truly impressed? Google search the phrase “advice for white girls”..
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posted on
09/19/2017 11:46:24 AM PDT
by
Hugh the Scot
("The days of being a keyboard commando are over. It's time to get some bloody knuckles." -Drew68)
To: Hugh the Scot
Wikipedia search "white pride", "black pride", "gay pride", Latino pride".
One is a pathology. The others are great. Any guess which one?
To: yuleeyahoo
Yep duck duck go...search American Inventors...literally all black photos. White couple a bit less than google
To: joma89
Pssst. the same crappy results come up when searching with DuckDuckGo.com.
Google is lousy and so is the “alternative”.
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posted on
09/19/2017 12:03:00 PM PDT
by
a fool in paradise
(Did Barack Obama denounce Communism and dictatorships when he visited Cuba as a puppet of the State?)
To: joma89
“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.
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posted on
09/19/2017 12:10:10 PM PDT
by
ctdonath2
(It's not "white privilege", it's "Puritan work ethic". Behavior begets consequences.)
To: joma89
"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"
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posted on
09/19/2017 12:16:11 PM PDT
by
Garth Tater
(Gone Galt and I ain't coming back.)
To: joma89
Been happening for a long time. Poor question.
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posted on
09/19/2017 12:21:30 PM PDT
by
mulligan
To: ctdonath2
"Such accusations have been leveled at Google almost as long as it has been around. Every time, its shown that the results are just a matter of whos searching and whos 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.
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posted on
09/19/2017 12:26:04 PM PDT
by
Garth Tater
(Gone Galt and I ain't coming back.)
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