#Google

Google and the Suppression of Free Thought: An Illustration

We have all heard recently about how Google has instituted policies, allegedly to counter "fake news", suppressing results of various non-mainstream website in their search results. This has resulted in significantly less traffic and therefore less revenue for many sites which we in our community look to for news sources. So, when I had a bit of free time the other day, I set out to do an experiment, to test this hypothesis and observe Google's search results censoring in action.

Youtube's apparent censorship

Recently, there's been a torrent of videos on Youtube of people talking about, and heavily criticizing, Google's decision to demonitize (take away advertisement based funding) any and all videos that are, to name a few categories, "controversial, include swearing, show violence, contain partial nudity," among others. The immediate reaction was that people believed Google was engaging in censorship of some form.