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Is this any better than Vanadium?

Akamai maybe? They probably wouldn't touch them either.

There's also all those apps being removed from the Apple App Store for being critical of the CCP. Many such cases!

People act like this is just being done because people have the wrong politics, but it's a far more pervasive problem than they realise

Please keep your propaganda on reddit

Remember this man, Seth Rich, Michael Hastings, and Harrison Deal.

I'm not saying this isn't true (there's a lot of evidence to support this claim), however, if you read the actual report the Guardian is reporting on, all but one of their sources are Vox, NYT, WaPo. It wouldn't be controversial to say that these outlets lean left, and therefore would draw conclusions along those lines. Why didn't the Brennan Center report look at the studies directly? I think that taints the sources a bit.

Yeah, there were many Klan members in the police force back in the day? This article seems to suggest it's a new problem

I think there's more risk of corruption or favouritism with IA than if it was a federal body completely disconnected from the department

Yeah, as far as I can tell there's no actual list of demands apart from "Defund the police" which isn't very practical.

Seems like more people are going to die, and public opinion of the movement will continue to drop. It seems to be pushing a lot of people to vote from Trump

absentee ballots are different to the mass mail-in ones. Trump said he supports absentee ballots because they have to be requested

Thanks for your point of view. I'm going to keep researching to find some alternative examples

I guess what I'm getting at there is, content aside, Google has made a conscious decision to step in here and de-rank that website. We don't know what their motivations for that are because they haven't stated that they de-ranked Breitbart.

Sundar Pichai was asked during testimony if they censor websites and he said (wording might be a bit off) "only in cases where it's a legal requirement or a copyright issue". If Breitbart being de-ranked was one of those then I'm sure they would have let Breitbart know. But as far as I can tell it was a concerted effort to suppress that website in particular.

If you come across any data about other sites that are similarly affected I'd love to know!

I see where you're coming from. In my opinion the search engine shouldn't take a stance when it comes to politics, though. They claimed they only step in when it's illegal content or copyright, but I haven't seen any evidence of them removing left-leaning sites in this fashion.

I can't prove that what Google did specifically targeted Breitbart but if it was just changes to the algo then we should have seen other popular sites with similarly dramatic drops in visibility. I'd love to see other examples if they do exist

Yeah absolutely, GA is quite terrifying. And they just ignore "do not track" settings on browsers. Recaptcha is another one trojan horse imo. With recaptcha v3 you get that single score to determine how legitimate of a user you are. I've been outright blocked from sites because of my recaptcha score.