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Re:Google, democracy and the truth about internet search by ChuckMcM on Monday December 05, 2016 @02:32AM (#13103932)
For the most effect go to the county library and use one of the Internet computers. Bring up Google and try a few short queries. It reflects the searches of the people who regularly use the library's Internet access computers.

The point of the article (as I understood it) was that perhaps Google could recognize queries that were hateful (it already squashes queries that are sexual) and either suppress them or proactively suggest counter narratives that the searcher might not be aware of. It is the latter which is both quite difficult and usually quite offensive to people, if you just suppress the suggestions it generates less controversy.

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