About
Operation Google is the codename of a raid launched against Google’sArtificial Intelligence program Jigsaw Conversation in retaliation against censorship and to have the A.I. filter out Google’s own sites in searches.
Background
Jigsaw Conversation
Jigsaw, a small subsidiary of Google, introduced a Conversation A.I. to identify “negative comments” left by hateful trolls in comment threads and delete them. These include comments deemed “sexist, racist, transphobic, Islamophobic,” etc. The A.I. would also block search results for posts that contained racial and transphobic.[3] According to The Verge[4] and Wired, while the Google claims the A.I. is 92% effective, it has some problems identifying nuances of human language.
On /pol/
On September 21st, 2016, a thread was posted on /pol/ discussing the new A.I program and how people would start to use the phrase “Google” instead of “nigger” as a workaround[2].
Notable Developments
Later, a poster was made explaining the reason behind the raid and on how to participate (shown below).
If you’ve been seeing this around /pol/ you’re probably wondering, "why the fuck would we say “Google” instead of nigger? It’s dumb and cringy as fuck", well to answer this it’s done after Google’s recent announcement to censor certain words looked through their search engine just to keep safe spaces extra “safe”. Our response is to make it so Google would have to censor their own company by making them a racial slur towards blacks.
Soon, a list of replacements for slurs (i.e. Jews/Kyke=Skype) surfaced on /pol/ (shown below).
On September 22nd, a Reddit[5] thread on /r/technology linked to an Age of Shitlords[1] article that explained “Operation Google.” As of September 23rd, the thread gained 677 upvotes.
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