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Silicon Valley Tightens Its Grip on Free Speech

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I wonder what constantly being mad at everything does to our psyche.

What a jumbled illogical mess of an argument. The author confuses free speech, monopolistic tendencies, and censorship but doesn't make a solid point about any of them. Instead, they skip from one topic to another without real evidence or thought.

Basically, I think he's saying that Google and Youtube have altered their search algorithms to bias towards progressive values and demote (rank lower) non-progressive posts.

Also, he's saying people have had their accounts cancelled because their accounts were flagged as "hate speech" (even if it wasn't) and that doing so, was biased.

Also, some companies are aggressively forcing their employees to subscribe and support certain political ideas. I won't name names, but I've also felt this at one place I worked. Here's how it works. Managers engage their subordinates on political matters, asking them "what they think". And if you don't agree with their views, you may be negatively sanctioned, in the future (this is implied, not specifically spelled out).

I felt like that at my previous job(startup) everyone was very progressive and if you disagreed with any progressive ideologies you would be socially shunned.

Being rather moderate (which is a republican in my state and I am slightly left of them) and a skeptic you would only be ostracized for thinking anything but what Bernie Sanders or Elizabeth Warren preaches. No one likes someone who questions everything because they see politics as akin to faith.

This propensity to ostracize people only pushes them further away from center because they will only discuss things with people who won't shame them and of course that will be online.

Now I work at a financial firm and we have a lot of liberals and republicans and they are all willing to speak their mind because politics here has nothing to do with who your friends are.

There's a reason for this: Lifezette and similar are a shill media company of political operative Laura Ingraham, which operate under the aegis of doing legitimate reporting.

This is about as reputable as something you would find on the Huffington Post or Drudge Report.

Seems like a response to GoDaddy and Google kicking the Daily Stormer off of their registration/hosting platforms.

This is just asking various world governments to regulate or force google to do stuff.

Its not going to end well.

Riots are the voices of the unheard - Martin Luther King Jr

employees in Google's ad sales department are "openly encouraging Adwords customers to pull their ads from Breitbart and Rebel Media."

"efforts to demote anything non-PC, anti-Communist, and anti-Islamic terror from search results."

"Emmett says he personally witnessed efforts from leftists within Google to bias YouTube's algorithms to push anti-PC content off the platform's 'related videos' recommendations,"

Apparently, a company with a 644 Billion dollar market cap, co-founded by a man whose parents fled the USSR for political reasons, is secretly trying to promote Communism.

Nah, I just posted that here to encourage the discussion. I don't have much trouble believing that the article is derived from some sort of similar reality though.

Here's some more disturbing relatively credible content:

http://dailycaller.com/2016/09/19/google-search-results-skew...

https://www.theverge.com/2017/8/14/16145064/google-daily-sto...

You can build a gun today, but you can't control who it's pointed at tomorrow.

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