Algorithms of Suppression: “As if to prove our point, Google has judged our argument as wrongthink that should be forbidden.”
It used to be that the old media suppressed the discussion of anything outside of “approved” opinion. Now the new media has taken over that job.
(From The American Mind)What Google is really doing (like Facebook, Twitter, and other platforms) is policing the terms of American political debate to advance acceptable establishment ideology. In First Amendment parlance, Google is in the viewpoint discrimination business, and its target is heresies like ours against the prevailing orthodoxies of our time.
