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Executive Chairman of Google’s parent company Alphabet, Eric Schmidt, says Google will “engineer” specific algorithms for RT and Sputnik to make their articles less prominent on the search engine’s news delivery services. Google will “de-rank” RT and Sputnik News articles to make them harder to find. Alex Christoforou Amazon launches a cloud service for US intelligence agenciesThe introduction of the AWS Secret Region for the U.S. intelligence community comes six years after Amazon...

Censorship strikes again. Google, FaceBook, say it isn't so. Sure looks like it. (Google owns YouTube).Is the window closing and the blinds being drawn?SouthFrontYouTube Bans SYRIANGIRL’s Video About Her Facebook Ban – for ‘Hate Speech’lkb22

In case you haven’t heard, Google is the target of a class-action lawsuit based on gender discrimination. (Shocking, I know, given what we know about Silicon Valley more generally. =P) Part of the impetus for the lawsuit is an employee-led effort to collect compensation data that shows that men are paid more than women at the company, as described in the above article. From a data perspective, proving discrimination can be somewhat difficult- for example, we hear the often-quoted “women make...

YouTube Rejects Appeal, Holds ‘Original Decision’ To Censor Southfront’s Channel Gives "googling" a new meaning in addition to searching and providing intel to the US government. Now it inclues censorship. (Google owns YouTube.) What are the alternatives to YouTube to avoid the censor?SouthFrontYouTube Is Adamant About Censoring Southfront ikb22

Don't be evil was, of course, Google's motto. The New York Times had a piece recently on the firing of Barry Lynn from the New America Foundation, a Democratic think tank that, if memory doesn't fail me, was at least initially connected to the Clintons. The whole thing resulted from the fact that Lynn was favorable to the European Union regulation of Google, a major donor to the think tank.Given that I've been writing about the influence of corporate money in academia, I thought it was a...

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The censorship algorithms rolled out by Google no doubt figured prominently in Mattis’ discussions with tech executives. The nominal purpose of his visit, however, was to integrate Silicon Valley firms even more closely into the booming and lucrative business of waging war. On Thursday, Mattis met with Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos at the tech giant’s headquarters in Seattle. On Friday, he spoke at the headquarters of Defense Innovation Unit Experimental (DUIX), a Defense Department unit located...