As we are well aware by now, the internet censorship on social platforms and video portals like Facebook, Twitter and YouTube has become quite notorious and extreme (mostly in the west?). The extent to which this is happening by now is staggering, often blocking, deleting stuff and "deplatforming" anything that goes against the grain, in any field, really, but especially in hot areas.
But, what about the Internet itself, or rather, search engines like google and others? Sure, we also noticed something like that going on there, but could it be that it has already gotten very thoroughly controlled, step by step, so that we have not really noticed the extent of it? And the possible consequences especially for the brainwashed masses (and in that regard, especially the youngest generations)?
What follows are two videos that are likely somewhat sensationalized, oversimplified and smell like clickbait. Generally speaking, I'm not the biggest fan of the guy in the video because he is often pretty uncritical and just runs with anything (even pretty crazy stuff), before really thinking about it. So, I think there are probably a number of points he is making that can be easily disproven and/or explained by other things than "quietly deleting the internet". I didn't listen to all of it. He also suggests that it isn't just google who does it but pretty much every search engine:
I was just trying to find the full recent speech of Putin and Lavrov in video and text form via Google and noticed how extremely difficult it is to find the whole speech in any of the two forms (video or text) via a Google search, even if I try my usual tricks like "the last 24 hours" and special wordings. I also noticed that it is extremely hard to find any sources outside the mainstream platforms in that search (and other searches). Disregarding some of the probably sluggish arguments the guy above is making, I do think that something of that sort might indeed have become a big problem over the last months/years, judged by my own searches and how it was just a couple of years ago.
It is kind of scary to find, that you can now, apparently, only find stuff outside the mainstream, if you know exactly what you have to search for BEFOREHAND, and even then, what you get is mostly, if not exclusively, mainstream stuff. I think I subtly noticed stuff like that quite a lot over the last months/years, but never really thought about it, in a thorough and conscious way.
Now, if I have such big problems to find anything outside the mainstream, with my extended knowledge of what is going on - and has been going on for years (in all sorts of fields) coupled with quite some knowledge on how to phrase and search for things in search engines, in order to find good stuff - how on earth can ordinary people now find anything outside the mainstream via Google and co. anymore? I know which websites to open and how they are called. How can ordinary people find such websites now though, who don't have that knowledge? And what does that lead to?
So, it seems to me, it is not really that "the internet is getting quietly deleted", but rather, that the search engines seem to have purged (and seem to continue to do so, in an alarming rate) anything that goes against the grain, with the end result that you can hardly find anything outside the mainstream anymore. IF something like that is going on, I'm pretty certain that most, if not all of it, is automated via algorithms, AI and bots, and stuff like that.
But, what about the Internet itself, or rather, search engines like google and others? Sure, we also noticed something like that going on there, but could it be that it has already gotten very thoroughly controlled, step by step, so that we have not really noticed the extent of it? And the possible consequences especially for the brainwashed masses (and in that regard, especially the youngest generations)?
What follows are two videos that are likely somewhat sensationalized, oversimplified and smell like clickbait. Generally speaking, I'm not the biggest fan of the guy in the video because he is often pretty uncritical and just runs with anything (even pretty crazy stuff), before really thinking about it. So, I think there are probably a number of points he is making that can be easily disproven and/or explained by other things than "quietly deleting the internet". I didn't listen to all of it. He also suggests that it isn't just google who does it but pretty much every search engine:
I was just trying to find the full recent speech of Putin and Lavrov in video and text form via Google and noticed how extremely difficult it is to find the whole speech in any of the two forms (video or text) via a Google search, even if I try my usual tricks like "the last 24 hours" and special wordings. I also noticed that it is extremely hard to find any sources outside the mainstream platforms in that search (and other searches). Disregarding some of the probably sluggish arguments the guy above is making, I do think that something of that sort might indeed have become a big problem over the last months/years, judged by my own searches and how it was just a couple of years ago.
It is kind of scary to find, that you can now, apparently, only find stuff outside the mainstream, if you know exactly what you have to search for BEFOREHAND, and even then, what you get is mostly, if not exclusively, mainstream stuff. I think I subtly noticed stuff like that quite a lot over the last months/years, but never really thought about it, in a thorough and conscious way.
Now, if I have such big problems to find anything outside the mainstream, with my extended knowledge of what is going on - and has been going on for years (in all sorts of fields) coupled with quite some knowledge on how to phrase and search for things in search engines, in order to find good stuff - how on earth can ordinary people now find anything outside the mainstream via Google and co. anymore? I know which websites to open and how they are called. How can ordinary people find such websites now though, who don't have that knowledge? And what does that lead to?
So, it seems to me, it is not really that "the internet is getting quietly deleted", but rather, that the search engines seem to have purged (and seem to continue to do so, in an alarming rate) anything that goes against the grain, with the end result that you can hardly find anything outside the mainstream anymore. IF something like that is going on, I'm pretty certain that most, if not all of it, is automated via algorithms, AI and bots, and stuff like that.
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