"It's certainly hard to feel good about being bought out by a regime that's very much at odds with progressive society"
  • bedwyr@piefed.caEnglish
    64·
    2 days ago

    Google suppression is the more prolific cause of censorship, not the least in criticisms of large firms.

    They are in effect running a protection racket. If a company pays them to not show search results, they won’t show them. Ie, best buy’s now since 2021 defective electronics. The only hits on social media that are even close to what you are asking for, are forums run by the manufacturers that sold you the defective merchandise.

    There is no bottom to this path we are on.

    • AlphaOmega@lemmy.worldEnglish
      32·
      2 days ago

      That’s not how it works. You can’t pay Google to suppress links. You can only file DMCA take downs iirc. Please send me the link where I can go pay Google to remove information. I’ll wait.

      • AmyAye@nord.pubEnglish
        7·
        2 days ago

        YOU can’t. I imagine large corpos have a better portal than you or I.

        • AlphaOmega@lemmy.worldEnglish
          31·
          2 days ago

          I’ve worked for large corporations. This doesn’t exist. It’s 100% misinformation

          • bedwyr@piefed.caEnglish
            14·
            2 days ago

            As if you would know, that you think they would let you in on that part of the business destroys your credibility in truth.

            You are either quite mistaken and not able to see through bullshit, or covering for them. I suspect the former but idk it’s 2026 and mechanized influence ops are everywhere, including fully autonomous ones.

            • AlphaOmega@lemmy.worldEnglish
              31·
              2 days ago

              Still waiting on any proof other than “because I said so”.

              Google removes billions of links yearly, these are through government laws, court rulings and DMCA. They maintain a transparency list of these removals. You don’t need to bribe Google, simply have your lawyers figure out a way to have it legally removed.

              • bedwyr@piefed.caEnglish
                14·
                2 days ago

                I have an exciting investment opportunity for you! Because you are so naive, I figured I would explain the joke as you clearly would not get it on your own judging by your comments on this thread.

                Tell it to someone that doesn’t know that you have 0 credibility.