[ale] OT sort of: youtube search results in Linux

Wolf Halton wolf.halton at gmail.com
Thu Nov 8 06:44:59 EST 2012


In 2006 while I was researching computer security and penetration testing,
searching the term "hacking" got zero results.
Chilling experience.

Wolf Halton
http://sourcefreedom.com
Apache developer:
wolfhalton at apache.org
On Nov 7, 2012 12:39 AM, "Damon Chesser" <damon at damtek.com> wrote:

> On 11/06/2012 11:33 AM, Damon Chesser wrote:
> > OK, so there is a bit of irony here for you, I will let you find it:
> >
> > In-law posted a vid of "stupid Romney supporters" who were interviewed.
> > Now we all know there are stupid "insert name" supporters for
> > everybody.  So I went to youtube and searched for "stupid Obama
> > supporters" with the intent of posting back a good nature retort.
> >
> > Not one of the "stupid Obama supporters" videos worked.
> >
> > All of the "stupid Romney supporters" videos, that I searched for to
> > troubleshoot, worked.
> >
> > This bothered me greatly.  Youtube is not the government, they can
> > censor anything they like, but it bothered me.
> >
> > I booted into windows and now the "Stupid Obama supporters" videos all
> > worked!  Phew no censors.
> >
> > No explanation. No moralizing,  and I am sure you can see irony.
> >
> > On a separate issue, I searched for Mossberg ar15 in Google and only
> > found parts to buy, search for it in bing (shudder) and I get links to
> > business selling Mossberg ar15s.  Not sure what is going on there yet.
> >
> > Discus.
> >
> Well,  others seem to say they don't have any issue in their Linux, I am
> running Sabayon x64 if that makes a difference.
>
> Thanks David for the link on opting out of Google, good info, I will
> follow up with reading that and Aaron's post.  David, if you work for
> Google, then we know you are evil, same way I am, I voted Republican and
> identify with Libertarian.  Oh, I work for a Bank also ;)
>
>
>
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> Damon L. Chesser
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>
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