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Hi there,

Not a frequent and skilled Wiki editor (yet), but I just noticed that my edit was deleted by an account called Objective3000. I would like to oppose to this since I don't think his/her argument for removing my contribution is fair nor valid and can be applied to the entire sub section I contributed in.

I posted the following in the “Search suggestions” sub section of this page: “Around December 2016, following complaints of antisemitism, the search giant has removed autocomplete suggestions in its search engine. The reason for this was that if you typed the phrase “are Jews” into Google, the search engine suggested “ are Jews evil” as a potential question.[1] [2]”

Can a senior editor help me out here? I believe the removal from Objective3000 was not correct nor just and therefore would like to see someone who is skilled enough to fix this conflict here.

Many thanks in advance. — Preceding unsigned comment added by CuriousGianni (talk • contribs) 01:56, 5 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

The argument by Objective3000 was "Even if true, don't see how this is censorship. They're just tuning an extremely complex algorithm". I think that's correct. BobFromBrockley (talk) 10:26, 5 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]
I don't see anything about removal of content. Just suggested content at the very top level -- auto-complete. You can still search on "are jews evil". It just doesn't suggest adding "evil" to "are jews". O3000 (talk) 10:44, 5 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

References

  1. ^ https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2016/12/05/google-removes-anti-semitic-suggestion-autocomplete-feature/
  2. ^ https://www.haaretz.com/us-news/google-removes-are-jews-evil-search-suggestion-but-so-far-keeps-are-muslims-bad-1.5470185

YouTube comments about crime stats by demographic is instantly deleted

Don't know what the citation would be for adding a section on this since I haven't seen a news report. But if you leave a comment comparing the disproportionate rate at which black people are killed by police to the rate at which violent crimes are committed by black people it is deleted within seconds. I think this should be added to the article since it potentially has significant ramifications in regard to the 2020 presidential election where police violence is a big issue, yet one side of the debate is instantly censored. People believe Facebook ads by Russia played a role in the 2016 election and I think this is a similar example of social media forcibly influencing political discourse. This is true on Last Week Tonight videos I'm not sure if it is true for the site as a whole, but other people have said it is. ElThomas (talk) 04:40, 10 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

ElThomas, got a reliable independent source for that? Guy (help! - typo?) 22:21, 25 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

"Censorship" by "moderation"? Need to add section

In October 2018 Google CEO Sudar Pichai denied "censorship" but admitted “We don‘t censor, we have moderation policies which we apply equally,”.[1] The [World Socialist Web Site] has asserted that it's articles are being down listed in search results and this amounts to censorship.[2] I propose to add a section on this. FWIW Pinchai said "We have had compliance issues with the World Socialist Review [sic]"; there is no online publication by this name and the print publication of this name ceased in 2011. Tjej (talk) 02:54, 5 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

References

  1. ^ https://www.crn.com/slide-shows/cloud/google-s-sundar-pichai-s-9-biggest-statements-at-tech-hearing/10
  2. ^ https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/11/04/goog-n04.html

Google and Voat

I am a bit surprised that I can't locate voat.co on Google at all, regardless of search terms, and even including site:voat.co. Is this domain specifically blocked by Google; has it been documented anywhere? 2A00:23C5:FE0C:2100:7D2D:6BB1:AF7F:AB70 (talk) 14:44, 6 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

voat.co shut down its servers and most of the users went to poal.co 2003:E4:870F:E300:C05C:5D56:1BF4:EE91 (talk) 14:19, 13 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Semi-protected edit request on 8 December 2020

Please change "In September 2018, Google has removed" to "In September 2018, Google removed". I'm pretty sure that its a spelling error, but correct me if I'm wrong. 71.62.186.68 (talk) 14:41, 8 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

 Done. It would either be "In September 2018, Google removed..." or "As of September 2018, Google has removed..." In this case, since it appears to be talking about a single event rather than an ongoing event, the former seems correct. ‑‑ElHef (Meep?) 14:48, 8 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

shriekdestitute.com

I'm leaving this here for someone else to check out, I thought it might make a good conversation even If im not involved.

Hello, this bugged me a little; Does anyone know why this site (shriekdestitute.com) wants to me to connect to it (the streampage being blocked) when i'm trying to watch a stream, but if i go directly to their home (shriek...) i get redirected to google search? Is this some sort of website blocking by google (which isn't my ISP, nor has anything to do with the route to the page)?

IP u can get through wikipedia, location EU; Swe.

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