{"id":88561,"date":"2019-07-03T15:00:47","date_gmt":"2019-07-03T19:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=88561"},"modified":"2019-07-03T06:22:50","modified_gmt":"2019-07-03T10:22:50","slug":"censoring-and-suppressing-conservative-accounts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=88561","title":{"rendered":"Censoring and Suppressing Conservative Speech on Social Media"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_88570\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-88570\" style=\"width: 382px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-88570\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/I-just-want-to-ban-the-donald-382x333.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"382\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/I-just-want-to-ban-the-donald-382x333.jpg 382w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/I-just-want-to-ban-the-donald-300x261.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/I-just-want-to-ban-the-donald-768x669.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/I-just-want-to-ban-the-donald.jpg 1125w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 382px) 100vw, 382px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-88570\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">1. I want to ban violence speech. 2. All the violence speech on Reddit. 3. I don&#8217;t want to ban these. 4. I want to ban the_donald.\u00a0 (poorlydrawnlines.com)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Project Veritas has a video on their website that was pulled from social media shortly after it was posted. This video showed an interview with Google&#8217;s Head of Responsible Innovation. During the course of the interview with her, she mentioned things about &#8220;preventing another Trump situation&#8221; and about &#8220;not changing&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">From Project Veritas:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Elizabeth Warren is saying we should break up Google. And like, I love her but she&#8217;s very misguided, like that will not make it better it will make it worse, <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>because all these smaller companies who don&#8217;t have the same resources that we do will be charged with preventing the next Trump situation, it&#8217;s like a small company cannot do that<\/strong><\/span>.&#8221; &#8211; <strong>Jen Gennai, Head of Responsible Innovation, Google<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Then-candidate Trump successfully leveraged social media like Twitter to get his information out. He also managed to define and set the tone for the environment that his opposition and he competed in. All of this against a massive leftist media tidal wave creating headwinds against conservatives&#8230; While creating tailwinds for Hilary and other Democrats.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_88571\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-88571\" style=\"width: 335px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-88571\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Facebook-police-banning-the-victor-335x333.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"335\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Facebook-police-banning-the-victor-335x333.jpg 335w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Facebook-police-banning-the-victor-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Facebook-police-banning-the-victor.jpg 425w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 335px) 100vw, 335px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-88571\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">People can&#8217;t win via an actual contest, they try to leverage the administrators to take action against the victor. (r\/The_Donald\/)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In the video, you could hear Jen Gennai, Google&#8217;s Head of Responsible Innovation, stating that Google wasn&#8217;t going to change despite what Congress may want. Try to do a Google search of censoring conservatives. You may get plenty of results leading to articles dismissive of the claim.<\/p>\n<p>Before, entering &#8220;Reddit The Donald&#8221; in Google&#8217;s search engine would&#8217;ve delivered that subreddit to the top of the results. As time progressed, that subreddit showed up lower in the results. Before, entering a search for &#8220;Donald Trump&#8221; would&#8217;ve delivered his Twitter account, &#8220;The Donald&#8221; subreddit, and other sites related to the president. As the months progressed, his Twitter and fan subreddit did not show up at the top.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_88572\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-88572\" style=\"width: 342px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-88572\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Post-remove-for-destroying-liberals-342x333.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"342\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Post-remove-for-destroying-liberals-342x333.jpg 342w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Post-remove-for-destroying-liberals-300x292.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Post-remove-for-destroying-liberals.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 342px) 100vw, 342px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-88572\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">We removed your post because it&#8217;s true and makes liberals look like idiots in violation of Facebook Community Standards.\u00a0 (r\/The_Donald\/)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>This extended to finding articles supporting the conservative argument. The results increasingly showed links to articles hostile to the conservative position. However, a search of similar search terms, on other search engines, provided different results.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_88573\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-88573\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-88573\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/no-moderation-trend-conservative-leftist-arguments-thrive-with-censorship-and-moderation-500x233.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"233\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/no-moderation-trend-conservative-leftist-arguments-thrive-with-censorship-and-moderation-500x233.png 500w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/no-moderation-trend-conservative-leftist-arguments-thrive-with-censorship-and-moderation-300x140.png 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/no-moderation-trend-conservative-leftist-arguments-thrive-with-censorship-and-moderation-768x358.png 768w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/no-moderation-trend-conservative-leftist-arguments-thrive-with-censorship-and-moderation.png 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-88573\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">When there&#8217;s little to no administration or moderation, the forum tends to be conservative. Excessive moderation and administration needed for leftist arguments to stand without being challenged.\u00a0 (r\/The_Donald\/)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Even on YouTube, those advancing conservative arguments are being the demonetized. The algorithm was manipulated to be unfavorable to conservative commentators. This including hiding their most popular videos from where they&#8217;d normally show up. Searching other YouTube accounts would have provided not only their account but their most popular videos.<\/p>\n<p>Never mind that many of the conservative channels received more views and likes than the YouTube channels recommended in the search, as well as on the side.<\/p>\n<p>There is an active effort, based on search results alone, to hide or even censor conservative accounts.<\/p>\n<p>Project Veritas has videos of their investigative journalism. The link leads to the page containing the video where Jen Gennai &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.projectveritas.com\/2019\/06\/24\/insider-blows-whistle-exec-reveals-google-plan-to-prevent-trump-situation-in-2020-on-hidden-cam\/\">spilled the beans<\/a>&#8220;.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Project Veritas has a video on their website that was pulled from social media shortly after &hellip; <a title=\"Censoring and Suppressing Conservative Speech on Social Media\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=88561\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Censoring and Suppressing Conservative Speech on Social Media<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=88561"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88561\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88587,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88561\/revisions\/88587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=88561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=88561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=88561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}