I would add Google to this list. They have kicked off political sites websites they don’t like from Blogspot and and made others sit behind the same warning one finds for pornography. Other sites have been de-listed by google, taking them off their search engine. Finally, some sites are not posting properly of Google Plus.
Apple, Google, and Facebook are all leftist companies. And all support comprehensive amnesty. They have an interest in keeping the facts out the hands of the American public.
Currently, if you use Google search with the site:freerepublic.com modifier to try to find something here, you get a malware warning about Free Republic from Google, and the links mostly don’t bring you here, they give you the linked-to link from the top of the article. So you get taken to NYTimes.com or whatever, and don’t get the FR page and comments, which of course are often more valuable than the source article.
Try it and see if you get that as well.
All true. But in fact, they are competition with the Associated Press, and any competition at least marginally improves the “gatekeeper” problem. It is because of search engines that FR typically “scoops” the MSM on stories which interest conservatives. Granted that a search engine can, in principle, censor by giving the illusion that “there’s nothing to see here” - but that is what the AP has been doing for a century and a half. And the beauty of FR is that we know everyone. The six degree issue comes into play, and with so many of us it actually isn’t easy to smoke things past us all . . . and up pops Buckhead.