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I've just created it. {{enwp based| url=http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_by_Google&oldid=203990 }}

Hi there,

Not a frequent and skilled Wiki editor (yet), but I just noticed that my edit was deleted by an account called Objective3000. I would like to oppose to this since I don't think his/her argument for removing my contribution is fair nor valid and can be applied to the entire sub section I contributed in.

I posted the following in the “Search suggestions” sub section of this page: “Around December 2016, following complaints of antisemitism, the search giant has removed autocomplete suggestions in its search engine. The reason for this was that if you typed the phrase “are Jews” into Google, the search engine suggested “ are Jews evil” as a potential question.^{[1] [2]}”

Can a senior editor help me out here? I believe the removal from Objective3000 was not correct nor just and therefore would like to see someone who is skilled enough to fix this conflict here.

Many thanks in advance. — Preceding unsigned comment added by CuriousGianni (talk • contribs) 01:56, 5 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

The argument by Objective3000 was "Even if true, don't see how this is censorship. They're just tuning an extremely complex algorithm". I think that's correct. BobFromBrockley (talk) 10:26, 5 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I don't see anything about removal of content. Just suggested content at the very top level -- auto-complete. You can still search on "are jews evil". It just doesn't suggest adding "evil" to "are jews". O3000 (talk) 10:44, 5 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Don't know what the citation would be for adding a section on this since I haven't seen a news report. But if you leave a comment comparing the disproportionate rate at which black people are killed by police to the rate at which violent crimes are committed by black people it is deleted within seconds. I think this should be added to the article since it potentially has significant ramifications in regard to the 2020 presidential election where police violence is a big issue, yet one side of the debate is instantly censored. People believe Facebook ads by Russia played a role in the 2016 election and I think this is a similar example of social media forcibly influencing political discourse. This is true on Last Week Tonight videos I'm not sure if it is true for the site as a whole, but other people have said it is. ElThomas (talk) 04:40, 10 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

ElThomas, got a reliable independent source for that? Guy (help! - typo?) 22:21, 25 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

In October 2018 Google CEO Sudar Pichai denied "censorship" but admitted “We don‘t censor, we have moderation policies which we apply equally,”.^[1] The [World Socialist Web Site] has asserted that it's articles are being down listed in search results and this amounts to censorship.^[2] I propose to add a section on this. FWIW Pinchai said "We have had compliance issues with the World Socialist Review [sic]"; there is no online publication by this name and the print publication of this name ceased in 2011. Tjej (talk) 02:54, 5 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I am a bit surprised that I can't locate voat.co on Google at all, regardless of search terms, and even including site:voat.co. Is this domain specifically blocked by Google; has it been documented anywhere? 2A00:23C5:FE0C:2100:7D2D:6BB1:AF7F:AB70 (talk) 14:44, 6 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

voat.co shut down its servers and most of the users went to poal.co 2003:E4:870F:E300:C05C:5D56:1BF4:EE91 (talk) 14:19, 13 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Please change "In September 2018, Google has removed" to "In September 2018, Google removed". I'm pretty sure that its a spelling error, but correct me if I'm wrong. 71.62.186.68 (talk) 14:41, 8 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

 Done. It would either be "In September 2018, Google removed..." or "As of September 2018, Google has removed..." In this case, since it appears to be talking about a single event rather than an ongoing event, the former seems correct. ‑‑ElHef (Meep?) 14:48, 8 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Full list of youtube-google secret censorship that didnt mentioned at all in their enormous detailed policies. maybe somebody have guts to add it on the page? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-2OT4G6_eU Sergey Woropaew (talk) 03:36, 6 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

googling this "147 Words Secretly BANNED on Youtube (Full List)" leads to reddit but reddit has banned the full list too. 194.207.86.26 (talk) 08:20, 20 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Neither YouTube or Reddit are considered reliable sources, so to add this information you will need to find a reliable source. InfiniteNexus (talk) 15:09, 20 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

[1]109.252.201.66 (talk) 10:21, 20 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

On November 10, 2021 the YT announced that it will hide a number of dislikes of videos. I propose to mention this. See also [2], [3] and Official Video AXONOV (talk) ⚑ 08:38, 29 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Are there any sources that specifically call it censorship? Otherwise, I doubt we could, or should, mention it. I'll look more later, but so far I've found this, however the website may not be an RS, according to some of the discussions I have seen about it's use. INDT (talk) 09:28, 29 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I agree that there may be no WP:RS. I won't insist if none is provided by someone. Regards. AXONOV (talk) ⚑ 14:03, 29 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I would not consider that censorship either, unless RS's state otherwise. However, I am shocked that this information isn't on Criticism of YouTube, where it definitely belongs. InfiniteNexus (talk) 04:21, 30 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@InfiniteNexus: Yup. Feel free to move this discussion to the Talk:Criticism of YouTube page if none minds. I also suggest to use tags like {{moved}} and {{moved from}}.--AXONOV (talk) ⚑ 07:02, 30 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Definitely agree about adding this to Criticism of YouTube, almost every source I have seen has either called the move heavily controversial, or directly criticised it. INDT (talk) 07:20, 30 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Google has published terms of service that allow them to take down videos that "spread" misinformation about COVID-19: [4]. There is plenty of abuse cases to find out I'm sure. It would be hard for a third party to verify fairness of policy application. AXONOV (talk) ⚑ 09:14, 25 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]