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Re:Silicon Valley Tightens Its Grip on Free Speech by doubleshame on Monday August 14, 2017 @03:10PM (#15011676)
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,"

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Re:Silicon Valley Tightens Its Grip on Free Speech by caseydurfee on Monday August 14, 2017 @06:08PM (#15013459)
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.
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Re:Silicon Valley Tightens Its Grip on Free Speech by doubleshame on Monday August 14, 2017 @07:03PM (#15013816)
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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