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MN_Centipede 18 points ago +18 / -0

Imagine if feds could go in and look at big tech company’s code and logs on subpoena.... they’d find treasure troves of manipulation, special algorithms and solutions custom built for censoring conservatives. Won’t happen cause our legal system is archaic and these guys are covering their trails and smart about not using official comms channels.

Google’s value system used to be “don’t be evil”, now they have become evil. They control how 99% of planet gets their information. Huge god like power. Being used against you and me. Miracle Trump won 2016. If things were balanced in media and tech it would have been a fucking landslide. This is their great chance to snuff out conservatism, move the goal posts for socialism, and turn us into a fucked-rightless version of the UK.

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MN_Centipede 9 points ago +9 / -0

FBI will wire tap trump on a whim from Obama and his Cronies..... why doesn’t our law enforcement do a little spying on MSM, Big Tech and BLM and find out whose pulling the strings on the 24/7 psychological warfare against our nation. There’s clearly monopolistic behavior and collusion driving a national leftist narrative and message.... that’s the fucking definition of propaganda.

Fake News is real. Trump is the first person to make people realize it and it kills them that it caught on as a slogan.

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FuckRioters 6 points ago +6 / -0

Coming from a perspective of someone who works in software, the code or logs are often not that useful without some kind of context or domain-knowledge. To actually be useful, you'd often need a whistle-blower to tell you where to look.

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FuckRioters 5 points ago +5 / -0

There are several things tech-companies are actually doing, which we have proof for, but there's also thankfully a level of incompetence and complexity with large software which makes it difficult for big-tech companies to do things which seems relatively simple.

Advertising "tech" companies do some crazy stuff in order to attempt to identify as much info as they can about users in order to sell them advertisements, and avoid wasting money on bots. I don't quite know the details well enough to explain it, but it is really complex. Probably nobody is using that ad-tech to specifically identify Trump supporters or anything like that, except to serve ads to people who are probably interested in Trump products.

That said, Reddit, Facebook, Twitter, and Google were all pissed off about the 2016 election, and decided around that time that they weren't going to allow Trump to be re-elected, and we've seen plenty of direct evidence of that (Project Veritos is a good source), on top of just simply looking at who they ban, shadow-ban, etc.

To use an analogy, they may be unable to herd cats (the right), but they're definitely poisoning the cat-food.

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ItGoWooWoo 4 points ago +5 / -1

I don't know shit about computers... I recently bought a VPN fully realizing that it might not do a damn thing for my privacy. What brought me to do it was realizing how Google has fucked up my information search. I use DuckDuckGo for 90% of things but I have Google Fiber internet. I search google search trends I know are there without any results... I try to find certain mainstream videos without any results... the problem hasn't been solved with the VPN. Actually, it has become worse because I attempted to watch a Wolf Blitzer video that obviously wasn't supported by the Norwegian IP location I was connected to. Like I said, I don't know shit about IP addresses, and barely know about coding but common sense tells me that censoring information is worse than misinformation.

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MN_Centipede 2 points ago +2 / -0

Yup. Like how there used to be really good compilation videos of Trump being funny and destroying people. They’ve made sure to not let that stuff get into main culture.

Orange man bad or it’s gonna get hidden.

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krzyzowiec 1 point ago +1 / -0

A VPN is definitely good for privacy but the stuff you are talking about is content. If websites are removing content there is nothing you can do about it. (other than archive it before they delete it)