According to Google's censorship algorithm, Michael Osterholm's podcast (famous epidemiologist and, at the time, a member of President Biden's own gold-star covid-19 advisory panel).

https://x.com/cidrap/status/1420482621696618496 ("Our Osterholm Update podcast episode (Jul 22) was removed for “medical misinformation.”" (2021))

Most ironic thing I've ever seen. I still recall it perfectly, though it's been four years. Never, ever trust censorship algorithms or the people who control them: they are just dumb parrots that suppress all discussion of an unwanted topic, without thought or reason.

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delichon 13 hours ago | parent [-]

My wake up moment was when they not only took down a Covid debate with a very well qualified virologist, but also removed references to it in the Google search index, not just for the YouTube link.

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miltonlost 12 hours ago | parent | next [-]

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delichon 12 hours ago | parent [-]

I am not comfortable letting Google make that decision for me. You are?

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theossuary 12 hours ago | parent [-]

We lost that choice when google became a monopoly.

What I'm not comfortable with is preventing a private company from moderating their product.

	▲	janalsncm 11 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Your line of reasoning is mixing “is” and “aught”. The whole thread is about what aught to be. I doubt most people want Google to be a monopoly.

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barbacoa 12 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Google went so far as to scan people's private google drives for copies of the documentary 'plandemic' and delete them.

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potsandpans 11 hours ago | parent [-]

Can you please provide evidence? I'm not saying I don't believe you. It's just... extraordinary claims etc

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barbacoa 11 hours ago | parent [-]

https://reclaimthenet.org/google-drive-takes-down-user-file-...

	▲	tbrownaw 5 hours ago \| parent [-]
		The sounds like the particular file in question was set to public and being widely shared around. Which is rather different than scanning actual private files.