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Comment by micheljones | Hacker News Reader

It's not schadenfreude, and this latest uptick in AdNauseam installation&use is not caused by anti-ad attitudes, but as backlash against what is perceived as thought policing by google, mostly in form of demonetizing and silencing popular YouTube users who lean right in their political expression.

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Yeah its a politic war. I believe it all started when some people on the left got some companies to pull their ads from some right wing Fox anchor. Unless someone knows of events older than this?

The earliest notable one I can think of is the whole Kellogs and Breitbart incident. However, specifically relating to Google, I'd say it's the James Damore political silencing by Google. And even more recently, Youtube has started censoring controversial videos and putting them inside a "gimped" version of Youtube. I.e. no likes/shares/related videos. It really is turning into a 1984 scenario.

Yes, no likes/shares/related, but on top of that, the videos are demonetized + no longer embeddable.

1984, where the government literally rewrites books, changes the language to be incapable of expressing dissent, and murders its citizens.

Comparable to firing a guy who upset a huge portion of the company and false positives on hate detection algorithms. Sure.

This has been going on for decades - I can remember it being used as a tactic against apartheit in South Africa.

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