Google has erased the 45th president of the United States
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Had to check it out, on a device myself. Surely this is fake, but no, it's real. You can say "so what, this is a business decision; Google can do what they like." Maybe it makes some people feel good. But meanwhile it makes others even angrier. The contribution is further division of society, and not just in the US. As a citizen actions like this trouble me greatly.
What are the factors in Google's business decision here?
So what do we have here, the "most useful result that the user is searching for" (which is the official Google position on SERP's) or a company trying to use its control over information to decide what we are supposed to see?
And of course this is only obvious in cases like the above, imagine all of the shit they hide (or manually modify results for) that you wouldn't know since you don't know what you don't know..
When there's actual serious conversations about getting rid of public libraries in favor of private companies. When people have willfully given away their culture to effectively infinite copyright. When we have groups of people espousing the idea that the public cannot be trusted with information to make informed decisions on. This is the end result. We get a curated response from the technology overlords that we put in place and then wave our hands private company not beholding to free speech or free information.
What's surprising to me more than something like this is that there are people in the open source community that support this kind of closed information and curated disclosure. They have forgotten the core principles that knowledge and information should be free. If you can convince someone to willfully put the shackles on their mind and accept that the idea of thoughts can be owned or thoughts by themselves can be dangerous you have them convinced that person to give up their freedom and that person will thank you for it.
I'm not sure if you just didn't watch the video or if this is some sort of straw man question you're tossing out there. But for an information indexer to refuse to respond at minimum with the Wikipedia article about who Donald J Trump is is clearly some sort of information bias that they're putting out there. I would hope regardless of our political opinions on the man the idea of free information is something everyone can support.
Your point is?
I looked at the video, tested it myself with Google Assistant, Siri and Alexa and Google is the only one doing it.
Everyone knows Google censors search results. I expect nothing different from them censoring results about the World Socialist Website to the Orange Man.