FTA: "These problems have proliferated because of the concentration of power in the hands of a few platforms – including Facebook, Google, and Twitter – which “control which ideas and opinions are seen and shared”."
They are indeed very active in removing ideas and opinions which are deemed unsavory. A recent example in from our neighbour country, Sweden.
"Journalist Willy Silberstein, editor-in-chief Helle Klein and former TV4 CEO Jan Scherman are some Swedish Jews who are on an anti-Semitic list online. Their legal representative has reported the list to Google for more than a month that it should not appear in search results by their name. Only now – after Expressen and DN's audits – Google starts backing and promises to remove 24 people from the list from their search results." https://tech2.org/sweden/google-starts-backing-after-critici...
I think the above serves well to illustrate the issue of weaponizing the web. The nazis are using the web as a weapon to list celebrity jews. The jews on the list are using the web as a weapon to wield power over Google's decisions and actions. Google is the weapon used by all the groups involved.
They are indeed very active in removing ideas and opinions which are deemed unsavory. A recent example in from our neighbour country, Sweden.
"Google is facing criticism in Sweden for its failure to prevent anti-Semitic material from topping searches featuring the term “Jews in Sweden.”" https://www.timesofisrael.com/swedish-jews-complain-google-s...
"Journalist Willy Silberstein, editor-in-chief Helle Klein and former TV4 CEO Jan Scherman are some Swedish Jews who are on an anti-Semitic list online. Their legal representative has reported the list to Google for more than a month that it should not appear in search results by their name. Only now – after Expressen and DN's audits – Google starts backing and promises to remove 24 people from the list from their search results." https://tech2.org/sweden/google-starts-backing-after-critici...
I think the above serves well to illustrate the issue of weaponizing the web. The nazis are using the web as a weapon to list celebrity jews. The jews on the list are using the web as a weapon to wield power over Google's decisions and actions. Google is the weapon used by all the groups involved.