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Comment by beepboopbeep | Hacker News Reader

The article is trying to not-so-subtly prop up the conservative meme that google is a leftist empire out to censor conservative voices.

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A meme? Did you happen to watch the video of the post election all hands?

Where in the video did they pledge to censor conservative voices?

The concern is not that they're currently doing it at scale, but that they're about to.

It also frankly looks like they're already doing it at scale for Google News specifically, vs general web search results.

They don't have to. The singular monotone reaction from the top echelon is message enough. I'm no fan of Trump or his policies, but neither am I a fan of an environment where it is assumed we all have the same political views. For a company of over 100k employees, an event like that can't be seen as inclusive.

I probably wouldn't feel welcome at Fox News. Can I force them to become more liberal in the name of "diversity of thought"? Or does that meme only work when it's trying to promote people on the right?

Google can do whatever they want as long as they are honest about it. If they want to call themselves “The progressive search engine” then at least they are being upfront about it.

One can think that Google has a right to a viewpoint and also point out that the viewpoint isn't objective.

Where in the video did they do anything wrong?

This article shows that a company which claimed "we lost" in a post election meeting has actively discussed censoring search results related to conservative policies - no subtly required, just facts.

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