Monday, August 24, 2020

is it possible that i'm mistaking corporatism for censorship?

google sells ads. that's the point. so, if your exact phrase is close to something that can help it serve an ad, maybe it might want to expand the term a little. that's an invasion of privacy, perhaps, but it's not as scary as the image i just posted.

the terms i'm testing with make such a thing fairly unlikely, unless google is running ads for mosques, or something (would they even allow that? well, it's inevitable that we'll see a muslim jerry falwell, eventually. maybe it might help if they speed that process up.). if you can show me where the algorithm failed, i'll concede the point. but, it seems like it's too much of a stretch, in the context of the terms i'm using, and the way that the server is reacting.