Maybe we can trust Google not to hide stuff from us, but how come the following bullshit is all over Youtube?
"teleSUR is funded in whole or in part by the Latin American government" [0]
First of all, that warning doesn't even make sense. "The Latin American government"? Who's the president in that government? Maybe they have a king? Is that government less reliable than the USA government? Do they fight as many wars? Does the USA government fund any part of any media sources?
More importantly, now that this sort of pathetic annotation has started, wouldn't we expect it to increase? If Alphabet require a complete accounting of all income sources for all video posters, they'll be able to annotate more comprehensively, and then charge on a sliding scale to hide those annotations. Can actual censorship be far behind?
>> Having Google censor results could create the false impression that search results are censored similarly in the US as well.
> ...false...
> Maybe we can trust Google not to hide stuff from us, but how come the following bullshit is all over Youtube?
You're going off into the weeds and talking about an entirely different issue.
Google search results in the US are not censored similarly to China's: you can search for Tiananmen Square or Kent State and get accurate results. The kind of thing we're talking about is a scenario where those queries return nothing, or only garbage the supports the party line. The false impression is the one created when a Chinese person cross-checks Baidu against a hypothetical Google.cn and sees no difference in censorship, and makes the error that Google.cn reflects the behavior of Google.com.
We're not talking about poor labeling around who funded what (which is not censorship at all, by the way).
Having Google censor results could create the false impression that search results are censored similarly in the US as well.