Affecting Display of Content Based on Negative Reactions

A method, comprising:

• outputting, through a personal digital assistant that includes an audio codec, first content to a first user;
• receiving, by one or more processing devices, digital information specifying a spoken negative reaction to the first content that was converted into the digital information by the audio codec of the personal digital assistant;
• in response to the digital information specifying the spoken negative reaction, identifying, by the one or more processing devices, second content having a topic in common with the first content, where the topic in common is identified based on terms included in both of the first content and the second content or based on Internet domains associated with both of the first content and the second content;
• identifying, by the one or more processing devices, one or more second users having a same characteristic as the first user;
• and
• reducing a likelihood that the second content is distributed to the one or more second users based on the one or more second users having the same characteristic as the first user and based on the first user having provided the spoken negative reaction to the first content that has the topic in common with the second content.

A non-transitory computer readable medium storing instructions that are executable by one or more processing devices to perform operations comprising:

• outputting, through a personal digital assistant that includes an audio codec, first content to a first user;
• receiving digital information specifying a spoken negative reaction to the first content that was converted into the digital information by the audio codec of the personal digital assistant;
• in response to the digital information specifying the spoken negative reaction, identifying second content having a topic in common with the first content, where the topic in common is identified based on terms included in both of the first content and the second content or based on Internet domains associated with both of the first content and the second content;
• identifying one or more second users having a same characteristic as the first user;
• and
• reducing a likelihood that the second content is distributed to the one or more second users based on the one or more second users having the same characteristic as the first user and based on the first user having provided the spoken negative reaction to the first content that has the topic in common with the second content.

A system, comprising:

• one or more processing devices;
• and
• memory storing instructionst that are executed by the one or more processing devices and cause the one or more processing devices to perform operaitons including:
• outputting, through a personal digital assistant that includes an audio codec, first content to a first user;
• receiving digital information specifying a spoken negative reaction to the first content that was converted into the digital information by the audio codec of the personal digital assistant;
• in response to the digital information specifying the spoken negative reaction, identifying second content having a topic in common with the first content, where the topic in common is identified based on terms included in both of the first content and the second content or based on Internet domains associated with both of the first content and the second content;
• identifying one or more second users having a same characteristic as the first user;
• and
• reducing a likelihood that the second content is distributed to the one or more second users based on the one or more second users having the same characteristic as the first user and based on the first user having provided the spoken negative reaction to the first content that has the topic in common with the second content.