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A comment on Statement on Google’s conduct by founder of CelebrityNetWorth.com (2019) [pdf]. Parent comment

Re:Statement on Google’s conduct by founder of CelebrityNetW... by flutterdude420 on Monday August 10, 2020 @10:37AM (#24109709)
> If the penalty weren't in place, we would get about double the visitors of that hate site. Given the rise of white nationalism in the West, does it make sense that a single person within Google can destroy a dictionary, while hate sites flourish?

Going to need evidence here. Your post comes off as a bit of a one-man pity party without it.

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Re:Statement on Google’s conduct by founder of CelebrityNetW... by WalterGR on Monday August 10, 2020 @10:43AM (#24109766)
Yeah that text is... long in the tooth. It was written before all of the deplatformings, when Google was sending tons of traffic to such sites.

Aside from that, I tried to be as neutral as possible. But the site is my life’s work so far - it’s hard to leave emotion out of it.

At this time I’m not going to publish my communication with the Google employee who informed me about the penalty, so if you think it’s a pity party, I’m okay with that. I’d rather that be the case than risk the livelihood of someone who did the right thing.

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