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Re:TikTok users can't upload anti-ICE videos. The company bl... by gizzlon on Tuesday January 27, 2026 @11:11AM (#46781908)
Did you just link to grokipedia?
Re:TikTok users can't upload anti-ICE videos. The company bl... by dmajor2 on Tuesday January 27, 2026 @11:25AM (#46782114)
Linking to actual sources would reveal that the keywords the IRS was looking for were politically biased, yes, but across the spectrum. The keywords included "Tea Party", "Patriot", "Progressive", and "Occupy." https://www.npr.org/2017/10/05/555975207/as-irs-targeted-tea...
Re:TikTok users can't upload anti-ICE videos. The company bl... by jeffbee on Tuesday January 27, 2026 @11:38AM (#46782339)
"Biased but across the spectrum" is nonsense.
Re:TikTok users can't upload anti-ICE videos. The company bl... by ajross on Tuesday January 27, 2026 @12:03PM (#46782794)
Purely semantic arguments aren't helpful to anyone.

The word "bias" clearly has two senses in this context. The original term from signal processing indicates a persistent offset, which got appropriated in politics to reflect the idea of a "lean" in coverage. So now "Bias" means "politically charged in some direction or another".

So you can have a "biased" term ("occupy") next to another biased term ("tea party") in a search. And it's reasonable to call the whole thing a collection of biased terms even though by the original definition I guess you'd say they cancel out and are "unbiased".

Language is language. It may not be rational but it's by definition never "nonsense". Don't argue with it except to clarify.

Re:TikTok users can't upload anti-ICE videos. The company bl... by jeffbee on Tuesday January 27, 2026 @12:30PM (#46783226)
Your comment is longer nonsense. Individual data points in a population cannot be biased. Bias is an aggregate statistic of the sample population.
Re:TikTok users can't upload anti-ICE videos. The company bl... by ajross on Tuesday January 27, 2026 @12:39PM (#46783355)
> Your comment is longer nonsense.

Sigh, here we go.

> Individual data points in a population cannot be biased.

Indeed they[1] cannot! By the first definition I listed.

Conversely, the term "tea party" is a "biased" political term by the second, as it connotes a particular political perspective.

I didn't make this stuff up, check definition 1a in M-W: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bias#h1

[1] The discussion is about search terms, btw. Not "data points", which sort of confounds your analysis.

Re:TikTok users can't upload anti-ICE videos. The company bl... by pixelatedindex on Tuesday January 27, 2026 @11:27AM (#46782151)
Re:TikTok users can't upload anti-ICE videos. The company bl... by guywithahat on Tuesday January 27, 2026 @11:49AM (#46782558)
I like it for political stuff, I don't have to worry so much about vandalism like one does on political wikipedia pages. There are fewer pictures though and the pages tends to be less human readable though so it's a tossup for most things
Re:TikTok users can't upload anti-ICE videos. The company bl... by direwolf20 on Tuesday January 27, 2026 @12:02PM (#46782780)
Eh? Every political page on Grokipedia is vandalized by Grok.
Re:TikTok users can't upload anti-ICE videos. The company bl... by ModernMech on Tuesday January 27, 2026 @11:55AM (#46782651)
Of course you like it, the whole point of grokipedia is to give a slant for people who share Musk’s political views. The vandalism is endemic.
Re:TikTok users can't upload anti-ICE videos. The company bl... by buellerbueller on Tuesday January 27, 2026 @12:50PM (#46783510)
Your comment just tells us that your worldview is consistent with that of an intentionally right-biased source manufactured by a pedobot.