Someone brought to my attention that my Periscopes on the subject of climate change, when they're reposted on YouTube, they come with a very prominent link by the video added by YouTube, which is owned by Google. So they add a link to the Wikipedia page saying that climate change is real and here are all the links. So is it completely a random algorithm? When climate change, when it's discussed in any kind of a skeptical frame, is matched by Google with a link to the most pro-climate consensus site you could have, which is a Wikipedia page with all the links demonstrating climate change. Is that completely an algorithmic thing because I use the right words? You know I use climate and skeptic and stuff like that so it could be just completely an algorithm, right? They just recognized the topic and then gave the maybe the most popular link that is comprehensive to that topic. Maybe they pair Wikipedia links with lots of different topics. Maybe.

But here's the interesting thing. I'm going to call back to something I said on another Periscope which is why can't we deprogram terrorists who are in the process of self-radicalizing? Self-radicalizing means getting on the internet and looking at a bunch of ISIS propaganda and talking yourself into being an ISIS terrorist. If Google can talk skeptics out of their belief of climate science by feeding them persuasive links, aren't we already doing that with the radicals? And could it be one of the big reasons that we're seeing less of it? Because I, and maybe we're not seeing less of it. So first of all you have to fact check that. But it feels like the United States is not having big problems with domestic terror. You know, some crazy guy here and there but it feels like there could be a lot more of it. I guess there's no way to measure because we don't measure because there's no way to know what it would have been if we had acted differently. There's no comparison point.

But I have to ask myself, is Google using the same thing that they used, same technology they used to pair my Periscopes on climate change with a Wikipedia page, aren't they doing the same thing with the terrorists? If a terrorist tries to find an ISIS site aren't they going to be bombarded with links and popups and persuasion and photos that would move them away from that position? And if not, why the hell not? Why the hell are we not doing that if we, I think we could be fairly certain it works. Not 100% obviously but I think we can say with complete certainty that it would work to at least reduce the risk.